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...around 66 lb. consumed by the average resident of the developing world. As developing nations get richer, one of the first things citizens spend their extra income on is a more meat-rich diet. Whereas pork would once have been a rare luxury in China, today even the relatively poor in the country's cities can afford a little meat at almost every meal - so much so that pork imports to China rose more than 900% through the first four months of the year. In 2008, global meat production is expected to top 280 million tons, and that figure could...
...among other things processing mortgages for an Australian finance company. Theroux sets up this section by noting that "in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Indian labour had been exploited for its cheapness. Coolie labour was the basis of the British Raj ... Again I recognized the paradox, that India's poor were its wealth...
...Ortega's unlikely political rebirth, which saw him regain the presidency in 2007 after 17 years in the proverbial political desert, has been accompanied by an even unlikelier religious awakening. Ortega, pundits say, sees himself as a messianic figure sent to deliver the poor of Nicaragua to the "promised land," as his past campaigns have promised...
...identify themselves as being multiple races. The changing nature of identity in America is manifested in both the Democratic frontrunner and, more importantly, by the party supporting him. True, Obama is the hardest Democratic candidate to define in history. By some measures, Obama is white and black, rich and poor, at home in elite institutions and on the streets of the South Side of Chicago. But the real importance of Obama’s candidacy is the incredible base of support that gave it rise. At the Democratic Convention, that base was on show, and its diversity and uniqueness proved...
...Food Agricultural Organization and the World Food Program expect that by early next year, more than 5 million Zimbabweans - about 45% of the population - will suffer food insecurity. A separate report from two human rights organizations says that nearly half the population now faces starvation, and that poor families are resorting to such desperate measures as marrying off their underage daughters to older men in exchange for food security. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has appealed for $26.6 million to help them deliver aid to 260,100 vulnerable people. The fact that the number...