{"id":768,"date":"2008-11-22T01:36:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T06:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/11\/22\/the-food-paradox-of-our-time\/"},"modified":"2008-11-22T01:36:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T06:36:28","slug":"the-food-paradox-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/22\/the-food-paradox-of-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Food Paradox Of Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-click\">\n<figure style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Percentage_population_undernourished_world_map.PNG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"List of countries by percentile of population ...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/78\/Percentage_population_undernourished_world_map.PNG\/202px-Percentage_population_undernourished_world_map.PNG\" alt=\"List of countries by percentile of population ...\" width=\"202\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>It is one of the larger <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Paradox\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paradox\">paradoxes<\/a> of our time that the very same food policies that have contributed to overnutrition in the first world are now contributing to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Malnutrition\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malnutrition\">undernutrition<\/a> in the third. 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