Siv O'Neall: Hunger is a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'.

Every five seconds, a child under 10 dies of hunger. Thirty-five million people die each year from hunger or its immediate aftermath. One billion people are permanently and severely malnourished, and the situation is becoming increasingly catastrophic. In his latest book "Mass Destruction, the Geopolitics of Hunger, Jean Ziegler talks about the current state of the world and the neoliberal politics of starvation of the poor, which has led to a crisis situation amounting to calculated murder. What we are witnessing today is the worst hunger crisis in human history. It is all because of human greed, colossal mismanagement for profit. Professor Ziegler deals in detail with the various causes of the current worldwide hunger disaster, which could have been avoided. This crisis is not determined by fate. The world could perfectly well provide food for 12 million people, almost double of the present population of 7 million. So what made this murderous situation possible, where thousands of people are dying (37,000 every day) from lack of food and clean water. It could have been avoided. It should not be happening: The goals of the agro-industry, Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and Bunge, et al. is to suck the life out of small farmers all over the world, especially in Africa and southern Asia.