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South African Food Burning

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
January
Year
1974
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South African Food Burning

The South African government has announced plans to destroy four and a half million bananas to boost the prices of the fruit -- even though millions of black Africans are starving.

The Banana Control Board of South Africa admits that their decision may be unpopular, but says that it has been taken only "under emergency conditions." The conditions are that a record crop of bananas has driven the price of the fruit down to near-record lows.

The Board says it will not give the bananas away to underfed Africans because the cost of ripening and distributing them would be too high. The Board faces widespread criticism, similar to that which they encountered five years ago when large quantities of citrus fruit and fresh milk were dumped - again because of oversupplies.

--ZODIAC