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Global Farm Grab vs. Our Native Need for Food

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In a disquieting rush to secure food supplies, financial speculators around the world are gobbling up farmland in developing nations and causing land prices to soar. Some call it the new colonialism, but most just call it an old-fashioned land grab. Land grabbing and food speculation are not just overseas phenomena; they are also happening in North America.

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IT'S EASIER TO ENSLAVE A STARVING POPULATION by liecatcher on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 12:45:17 PM