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Nature 404, 222 (16 March 2000) | doi:10.1038/35005264
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There's enough food for everyone, but the poor can't afford to buy it
Jonathan R. Latham1
- 25 Barrack Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 5ED, UK
The existence of malnourished and hungry people has been used repeatedly in this journal and elsewhere as a justification for biotechnology and for the production of more food1, 2. This assumption supports a main policy plank of the Rockefeller Foundation food biotechnology programme2 and other major international and charitable institutions.
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