Abstract
Imperialist Irony
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A US journalist released a podcast titled A Craving for Nutritional Knowledge,1 which described the nutritional landscape of Guatemala as “ironic”: “The main crop here was irony
He tells a story about how a K’iche’ clinician quizzed the dozen women in the room about where calcium and iron came from and how the women answered back with great enthusiasm: “Milk, meat, green vegetables, spinach, beans.”. Their correct answers offer evidence for the uncomfortable truth that knowledge does little to alleviate hunger in Guatemala’s highlands, where, as Thurow reports, “childhood malnutrition and stunting rates were about the highest you will find anywhere in the world.”. He mentions that Guatemala’s civil war ravaged the countryside, and he highlights the inequalities of the export trade, which keeps the cost of healthy vegetables high
Summary
A US journalist released a podcast titled A Craving for Nutritional Knowledge,1 which described the nutritional landscape of Guatemala as “ironic”: “The main crop here was irony. Their correct answers offer evidence for the uncomfortable truth that knowledge does little to alleviate hunger in Guatemala’s highlands, where, as Thurow reports, “childhood malnutrition and stunting rates were about the highest you will find anywhere in the world.” He mentions that Guatemala’s civil war ravaged the countryside, and he highlights the inequalities of the export trade, which keeps the cost of healthy vegetables high. Thurow is struck by the tragedy of the situation: women who produce food for the world do not, themselves, have enough to eat.
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