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That's a non-bylined Fox News story.

There's no individual taking responsibility for the information presented or for having done any research. That reduces credibility in my mind. Further, either the "update" should have been included in the original piece or we should have been told that an attempt was made to verify/clarify the information or to ask questions of someone from the WFP.

The headline and the first two paragraphs show an editorial bent to the piece rather than a presenting information news piece.

Oh yes, FAUX news, the master of the twist designed to impeach, marginalize, discredit, discount, distract from anything that doesn't feed the corporate bottom-line especially if it's not Murdoch's personal pockets being inflated.

Who's making out in this food crisis? Big companies such as Monsanto, ADM, Cargill, et al, but they don't want their taxes going up or their tax breaks curtailed to feed anyone who might still have a penny they could capture.

The UN has been a favorite target for years because it wouldn't do for any of the outside sources to make more sense than what the corporations are getting put into policy and done in DC much of which has caused the present problems.

To speak of the farm bill’s influence on the American food system does not begin to describe its full impact — on the environment, on global poverty, even on immigration. By making it possible for American farmers to sell their crops abroad for considerably less than it costs to grow them, the farm bill helps determine the price of corn in Mexico and the price of cotton in Nigeria and therefore whether farmers in those places will survive or be forced off the land, to migrate to the cities — or to the United States. The flow of immigrants north from Mexico since Nafta is inextricably linked to the flow of American corn in the opposite direction, a flood of subsidized grain that the Mexican government estimates has thrown two million Mexican farmers and other agricultural workers off the land since the mid-90s. (More recently, the ethanol boom has led to a spike in corn prices that has left that country reeling from soaring tortilla prices; linking its corn economy to ours has been an unalloyed disaster for Mexico’s eaters as well as its farmers.) You can’t fully comprehend the pressures driving immigration without comprehending what U.S. agricultural policy is doing to rural agriculture in Mexico.

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If it comes from FAUX, then find another dozen sources to get the real story. For one, pledges aren't hard cash. Just empty promises... the check is in the mail.