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One of our main arguments is that we in Western countries actually have part to play in causing the __1
problems of the Third World. Many Third World countries are saddle with immense debt burdens, for __2
example. They were lent money with low interest rates __3
in the 1970s, when money flooded into Western banks from the oil-producing countries and was lent out to the Third World. The interest rates have then been risen __4
dramatically. So you have a situation where a country in many cases can’t even repay the interest, letting alone __5
the capital, on the debt. And I suppose the best example from what I have come across is a country in West Africa where the consumption, the local consumption of peanuts was banned, because peanuts, if they are imported can bring in a great deal of foreign income. __6
The peanut is a major source of protein in this country.So you have people go hungry as a result of that. __7
The peanuts were exported to Great Britain and the United States to feed our cattle. Those cattle then produced a surplus of milk which we do not know what to do with.We have enough milk, more milk than we can cope with in the Western World. And also that milk __8
was transformed into dried milk powder and then taken back to this country to help feed children who were suffering from malnutrition. So that’s the kind of insanely __9
economic relationship that we have got ourselves in __10
the Third World.
