posted 10-01-2000 11:09 AM PT (US)        

Take for example, food production. According to the State of the World's Chidren 1988 report, more than 6 million children die of malnutrition and its related diseases.

Instead of being organized to feed the hungry, the system of capitalism is organized around not feeding everyone. The owners and executives who control food production have an interest in keeping up prices-and therefore profits. That means limiting the amount of food for sale. When there's too much food for sale, prices and profits fall. So the food bosses have convinced governments around the advanced world to store surplus food. In a world in which 6 million children starve to death, one-fifth of all food produced in the U.S. is either stockpiled, bulldozed or burned.