[Video] Fact-check: voedselcrisis?

Myth 1: Because of the financial meltdown,
and its repercussions on aid, the scale of hunger that we see now
is unprecedented; more people face starvation related to disasters
than ever before.

Fact 1: In fact, while unacceptably high,
starvation deaths per year have been declining for the past 60 or
70 years. Better publicity, grain market integration, and work by
aid agencies have decreased human deaths during each food crisis
since the late 1950’s.

Myth 2: Congress says farm subsidies insure
a food supply for the U.S. and for the world.

Fact 2: U.S. farm subsidies have
exacerbated the balloon in world food prices. In fact, economists
have found that abolishing domestic subsidies would actually lower
world prices for these crops.

Myth 3: Farm subsidies are necessary to
bolster farmers' incomes in order to alleviate poverty in the
United States.

Fact 3: That rationale made some sense in
the 1930s but it doesn’t today. Despite the fact that farm
households are doing as well or better than other households, farm
households are still targeted for billions of dollars in government
payments.