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Association  Food, Finance and Democracy in Crisis  Even as the
current global financial crisis claims more innocent victims
every day, the central value of Raj Patel's address was that he
articulated a long-range, historical, in-depth analysis of how
the crises of hunger and food insecurity and the rules of "free
market" capitalism have developed together and are inextricably
intertwined.  "The role we all play is essential in evolving the
food system towards our values: Values that unite us in a way
far greater than money can buy; values that put human health and
environmental health before profit; values that insist on a
democratic and socially just agricultural and food system;
values that are sustained by efforts that do pay off but refuse
to be bought off by the greed and corruption that are the
adversary of the health of our culture and society." -- Ken
Dickerson, Board President of the Ecological Farming
Association, in his introduction to