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To: Age of Reason

I think it is possible to argue that famines are man made disasters and not natural disasters. The inability for people to get food is probably due to idiotic economic policies like communism, rather than any lack of food on the entire planet.

People in capitalist societies do not tend to die from starvation en masse, if ever.


65 posted on 12/29/2004 6:18:00 PM PST by junkbond
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To: junkbond
People in capitalist societies do not tend to die from starvation en masse, if ever

Perhaps not en masse--but I'll bet more than one homeless American has died from causes related to malnutrition, if not from outright starvation

I also suspect that ironically you only find people dying from anorexia nervosa in rich capitalist societies.

But what's all this got to do with my post that you replied to?

68 posted on 12/29/2004 7:40:48 PM PST by Age of Reason
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