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Food Crisis Is 'Mass Murder': UN Envoy

Official blames multinationals for surging food prices

By Caroline Zimmerman,  Newser User

Posted Apr 20, 2008 4:02 PM CDT

(Newser) – A UN envoy called the world's food crisis "silent mass murder" today and blamed multinationals for "monopolizing the riches of the Earth," Reuters reports. Jean Ziegler, UN food rapporteur, chalked up surging food prices in poorer nations to biofuels, commodities markets, and...   Read full story »

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