World Food Prize + Hunger ... yes they do go together.

There is a really good article about the politics of Food and how it is being used throughout the "developing" world much like blackmail on Gourmet.com (story is here.) I think its great that our government is so concerned with addressing the needs of hunger and of food safety with one billion people worldwide now hungry or starving. To see how this plays together though here is another article from a few days ago that shows you what kind of dichotomy we live in in the West (Article is located here.) While the US is concerned with assisting countries that have large amounts of starving or hungry people, a suggestion would be that we need to look in our own backyards first. We have companies buying huge tracts of land in other countries to feed its own population meanwhile the people who are residents of that country cant eat the food that is being produced there.