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| "Grain Area Shrinks Again" |
44 |
As [world harvested grain] area per person falls [by more than a third since 1972], countries turn increasingly to foreign markets for their grain. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, for example, now have less than a quarter of the world average grain area per person, and each imports more than 70 percent of its grain. Population growth in many other Asian nations will reduce area per person to levels that have never supported food self-sufficiency anywhere. Indeed, by 2020 an estimated 70 percent of the people in Asia could depend on foreign markets for one fifth or more of their grain. |
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| "Prison Populations Exploding" |
150-151 |
China's rate of imprisonment appears to be on the low side, at 113 people per 100,000. But official figures may represent only 13 percent of those deprived of freedom. Dissident Harry Wu, a former prisoner who has studied the Chinese system, estimates that 4-6 million people are sentenced to "reform through labor," 3-5 million are in "re-education" labor camps, and 8-10 million are forced to work in prison factories or farms. Millions more are held in pre-trial detention. |
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| "Prison Populations Exploding" |
150-151 |
In the United States, the prison population has risen rapidly since the 1970s, when state and federal governments began to require mandatory and increasingly lengthy prison sentences for drug possession. The populatin in state and federal prisons grew from fewer than 200,000 inmates in 1970 to 1.2 million in 1998, with another 600,000 in local jails. Some 36 percent of prisoners entering state prisons and 71 percent of those in federal prisons were convicted of drug offenses. The drug-driven rapid increase in prison populations has led to widespread overcrowding; California's system, for example, is running at twice its intended capacity -- despite the construction of 21 new prisons in the past 20 years. |
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| "Prison Populations Exploding" |
150-151 |
In many countries, drug offenses are handled through treatment programs rather than through imprisonment. Arizona recently adopted such an approach. Because imprisonment costs the state $50 per day, while treatment, counseling, and probation run just $16 per day, Arizona saved more than $2.5 million the first year of the change in policy. More than three quarters of the people on probation stayed free of drugs thus far. |
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| "Nourishing the Underfed and Overfed" |
62 |
The United States has been at the leading edge of [the] overeating wave. Today it is more common than not for American adults to be overweight: 55 percent have a BMI over 25. The share of American adults who are obese has climbed from 15 to 23 percent just since 1980. And one out of five American children is overweight or obese, a 50-percent increase in the last two decades. ... The prevalence of obesity in England has doubled in the last 10 years to 16 percent. |
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| "Nourishing the Underfed and Overfed" |
68 |
In the United States, the billions of dollars of advertising by fast-food restaurants and the myriad advertisements for snack foods, soda, candy, and sugary breakfast cereals -- Kellogg's spends $40 million to promote Frosted Flakes alone -- makes USDA's $333-million budget for nutrition education look like a pittance. This imbalance in information and power between industry, consumers, and government results in what Kelly Brownell, a Yale University psychologist, has labeled a "toxic food environment": unprecedented access to high-calorie foods that are low in cost, promoted heavily, and good-tasting. |
overeating obesity |
| "Nourishing the Underfed and Overfed" |
70 |
Sixty percent of all newborns in India would be in intensive care had they been born in California. |
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