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Can You Go Broke Eating Fruit?

Ethan Freedman Ambrook Research
Some produce purveyors offer exorbitantly priced fruit and claim unparalleled quality — but are we mostly paying for a status symbol?

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Why Do Domestic Food Prices Keep Going Up When Global Prices Fall?

C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh network ideas.oeg
Rise in food prices can be traced to profiteering by large international agribusinesses and financial speculation in food commodity futures. Countries need domestic food sovereignty, regional arrangements to ensure supply, and volatility controls.

Remembering the Holocaust While Gaza Starves

Ariel Dorfman New Lines
A ceremony at an old food market in Amsterdam prompts reflections on tragedy, indifference and survival. How could so many Israelis feel indifferent to such grief and afflictions — that recalled how so many Germans had turned a blind eye to the Nazis
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