Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihopa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihopa!dap From: dap@ihopa.UUCP (afsd) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Using tax money to feed hungry people Message-ID: <164@ihopa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 16:04:09 EST Article-I.D.: ihopa.164 Posted: Sun Feb 19 16:04:09 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 08:23:58 EST References: <915@ihuxl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 10 I read an article somewhere which said that the reason that US food is not sent overseas is because the money to package it up, administer the shipping and actually send it over far exceeds the money needed to produce the same amount of food in the recipient nation. I don't know if this is true or not, but I suggest that somebody look into it before they assume that the US is a vile criminal for letting this food go to waste. Darrell Plank ihnp4!ihopa!dap BTL-IH