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Daily Archives: April 19th, 2008

Poor hardest hit by food crisis

The Singapore Straits Times
Poor hardest hit by food crisis
April 19, 2008 
‘LET them eat cake’ was how Marie Antoinette, France’s queen during the late 18th century, was alleged to have reacted to news that her subjects could not afford to buy bread.
The result was the French Revolution of 1793, which saw her literally losing her head.
And, [...]