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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 13. June 15 1981

Food Exported while Workers Starve

Food Exported while Workers Starve

However the 85% of Filipinos who live below the poverty line, their families subsisting on less than 40c per day - get nothing from the huge foreign investment. While they starve, significant quantities of meat and rice are exported by foreign-owned corporations.

It is not simply a case of foreign investment not benefitting the majority of Filipinos, but that these companies, the same companies that rip off workers all over the world, are responsible in conjunction with their puppet government allies for the shocking poverty that 85% of the population faces.