OHypocrisy Watch, African Edition

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com All this talk about a "new approach" to food aid for Africa — instead of deliveries of food, money is to be spent helping countries develop their own agriculture industries — brings to mind a provision in the 2008 farm bill (which Obama voted for): But perhaps the most egregious item in the new farm bill relates to international food aid. A longstanding provision governing U.S. food aid to foreign countries requires that all the food America sends abroad be purchased from American farmers. This means that, however much we allocate toward international food aid, a chunk of the money goes toward transporting food from the U.S. to its final destination. Seems to me that the best way to help African countries to develop their own agriculture industries would be to stop flooding them with subsidized food grown here.