Manufacturing a Food Crisis
	
		
			01 Jul 2008
		
		Submitted by: marc   Publisher: 
www.thenation.com
	 
	
		Tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last
year to protest a 60% increase in the price of tortillas. How on
earth did Mexicans, who live in the land where corn was
domesticated, become dependent on US imports in the first place?
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