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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 in the 1970s, when money flooded into Western banks__3__
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. The peanut is a major source of __6__
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 was transformed into dried milk powder and then taken back to this country __8__
to help feed children who were suffering from malnutrition. So that’s the kind of insanely economic relationship__9__
that we have got ourselves in the Third World. __10__
