In article >,
says...
>
> In article >,
> Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
>
> > Interesting piece on the global food chain in the LA Times this
> > morning. I'd be interested to learn the opinions of the denizens of
> > rfc:
> >
> > http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...rlic-globaliza
> > tion-20101020,0,7940039.story
> >
> > http://preview.tinyurl.com/28o7wqm
> >
> > Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> Ugh! It's a vicious circle.

The thing I find interesting is that the Chinese, with roughly the same
land area as the US and four times the population, have enough surplus
to make their own people overweight and still export enough to undercut
the US market.