One of our main arguments is that we in Western
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problems of the Third World. Many Third World
6 R/ D9 W+ o2 ]" v6 I* W% I/ H countries are saddle with immense debt burdens, for __2__
; E s$ U+ Y: ^( z! B+ w example. They were lent money with low interest rates __3__
0 o+ ]! u% U$ i, t2 s in the 1970s, when money flooded into Western banks
+ ~ V* t/ x6 I, h* `6 |6 P from the oil-producing countries and was lent out to( C( d( [9 y+ H2 X' N# P( \# }
the Third World. The interest rates have then been risen __4__5 `( c- Q$ F5 V2 l
dramatically. So you have a situation where a country, l0 B/ E) H3 N3 v; b- Y
in many cases can’t even repay the interest, letting alone __5__
+ B5 d: T, X$ A ?4 d the capital, on the debt. And I suppose the best example
" z8 r( S/ X% z+ U$ G, T from what I have come across is a country in West. o: d0 l. t: D/ x" x' e, d8 F. A
Africa where the consumption, the local consumption
+ C3 P. D$ W' J! }- [ of peanuts was banned, because peanuts, if they are
- i; Q& I) O; H imported can bring in a great deal of foreign income. __6__: v' ^' C/ R6 j
The peanut is a major source of protein in this country.
9 w9 _( u+ D o So you have people go hungry as a result of that. __7__, z% w4 X V7 r
The peanuts were exported to Great Britain and the9 S, k+ G( v$ H; }0 r* x6 B$ ^- c/ g
United States to feed our cattle. Those cattle then produced" I4 O6 v0 L2 X2 i
a surplus of milk which we do not know what to do with.5 u7 _' W# l6 s, ]" |% Z
We have enough milk, more milk than we can0 K0 f9 |9 n6 N2 x
cope with in the Western World. And also that milk __8__9 f: Y* z; W& M
was transformed into dried milk powder and then taken7 J* O6 V. O+ ~# ~0 P
back to this country to help feed children who were
# u0 @( o1 L2 |0 A; [/ p suffering from malnutrition. So that’s the kind of insanely __9__
5 E& c# A6 S c economic relationship that we have got ourselves in __10__
6 D e, x8 h2 [ the Third World. |