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DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 1
Strikes Again
Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 2
Strikes Again
Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 3
Strikes Again
Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 4
Strikes Again
Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 5
Strikes Again
Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 6
Strikes Again
Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 7
Strikes Again
Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 8
Strikes Again
Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Poverty Turn
Poverty Outweighs Genocide and Nuclear War, it kills over 14 million a year
James Gilligan, Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic, 2000, p 195-
196.
The 14 to 18 million deaths a year cause by structural violence compare with about 100,000 deaths per year from armed
conflict. Comparing this frequency of deaths from structural violence to the frequency of those caused by major military and
political violence, such as World War II (an estimated 49 million military and civilian deaths, including those caused by
genocide--or about eight million per year, 1935-1945), the Indonesian massacre of 1965-1966 (perhaps 575,000 deaths), the
Vietnam war (possibly two million, 1954-1973), and even a hypothetical nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R
(232 million), it was clear that even war cannot begin to compare with structural violence, which continues year after year.
In other word, every fifteen years, on the average, as many people die because of relative poverty as would be killed in
a nuclear war that caused 232 million deaths; and every single year, two to three times as many people die from poverty
throughout the world as were killed by the Nazi genocide of the Jews over a six-year period. This is, in effect, the
equivalent of an ongoing, unending, in fact accelerating, thermonuclear war, or genocide, perpetrated on the weak and
poor every year of every decade, throughout the world.
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 9
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Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
High FP Bad
High Food Prices Kill Retail Industry
Investors Chronicle, 3-5-08, Lexis,
http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?start=2&sort=RELEVANCE&format=GNBFI&risb=21_T4245
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The reason for this is simple. We spend more on food than on oil - four times as much in the UK and three times as much in the
US. And when food prices rise, people have less to spend on other things, so demand falls. In the US, there has been a
strong correlation (minus 0.38 since January 1992) between annual changes in food prices and in retail sales.
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 10
Strikes Again
Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 11
Strikes Again
Food Prices Supplement
DDI 2008 CM
Joy Goel
Worse still, some of the forces behind rising food prices - higher demand from India and China, and a fall in supply as
agricultural land is transferred to ethanol production - won't go away soon.
Team India (That’s right, the one that’s better than Team Isreal) 12
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