berman@ihuxm.UUCP (berman) (02/02/84)
I hate to interrupt the comfortable moralizing by the
well fed about the hungry, but it seems to me there is
a important issue being ignored in this debate.
Is there not something odious, insane, and otherwise
dastardly about an economic system that requires
government to supress the production of food (by
cash payment or the current "payment in kind") as
is done in the USA, while there are so many hungry
in the world?
Would it be possible to change such a system to one
where the prime raison-d'etre for food production
is to feed people? Is that a dangerous idea?
A little less moralizing about the godliness of
the various positions in this discussion and a little
more hard analysis of the causes of hunger might
advance this debate to a more fruitful plane.
Semper Fi,
Andy Berman