Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Sunday, April 27, 2008

Conversely,

the business people, despite the 'shortage' of food, will declare record profits in each coming year. Not the farmers and ranchers necessarily, but the large corporations that prepare the food:

Experts say high food prices permanent; bishops urge help for poor

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The article doesn't seem to mention the role of agribusiness (except, perhaps, implicitly), financial speculation, or the increasing use biofuels.