World "growth"

It's sad, really, that in a time where we say that the world is advancing and we as a civilization are taking care of hunger, the starving family is tending to a field of silk worms instead of rice. More and more often, third world countries are forced to grow cash crops or turn over the use of land entirely for the sole purpose of providing for first-world nations such as the US. When using that same area for their own benefit would seem more logical, it's not as cost-effective for the country as a whole to develop its own agriculture...but rather rely upon the whims of juggernauts for their existance.

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