All Posts Tagged With: "hunger"
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
The escalating price of oil, the world’s growing population, and its increasing demand for food have all received blame for rising worldwide food prices. What is often overlooked is that a significant portion of the world’s population is unable to feed itself—because of politics. That is the greater, more frightening problem. Today much of Africa [...]
2Apr2009 | Daniel Sacks | 1 comment | ContinuedAre Meat Eaters Starving the Poor?
Jeremy Rifkin, America’s ever-present guilt-monger, says hundreds of millions of people are going hungry because the world’s grain crops are being fed to livestock instead of people. Rifkin, writing in the May 27 Los Angeles Times, says eating grain-fed meat is “a new form of human evil.” He blames wealthy consumers for “eating at the [...]
1Oct2002 | Dennis T. Avery | 0 comments | ContinuedHenry Grady Weaver’s Classic Vision of Freedom
John Hood is the president of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press, 1996). This essay is an expanded version of Mr. Hood’s introduction to the third edition of The Mainspring of Human Progress by Henry Grady Weaver, published [...]
1Aug1997 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Road to Hell by Michael Maren
The Free Press • 1997 • 302 pages • $25.00 Mr. Vance is an instructor at Pensacola Bible Institute and a freelance writer living in Pensacola, Florida. The old cliché says: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. That is, the best of intentions often result in the worst of consequences. Yet, although [...]
1Jun1997 | Laurence M. Vance | 1 comment | Continued-
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