We take their crops to feed our animals and then try to dictate what they should eat

FOR decades, global economic policy has dictated that vast areas of the developing world’s agricultural land be used for ‘cash crops’.

This is used as a means of generating money to pay back the interest on loans that were practically forced on these countries in the first place.

Often these crops (eg, maize, soya) are fed to the developed world’s farm animals, which are then eaten by the rich world’s human population: thus the poverty-stricken country that has sacrificed the potential to grow useful crops for its own desperately needy gets no benefit at all from the crop.