February 9, 2011 BBC World Service News podcast on Mr. Lester Brown comments on China’s food production

Dear Sir/Madam,

I thank you for today’s (February 9, 2011) BBC World Service News podcast Mr. Lester Brown comments on China’s food production (http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/globalnews/globalnews_20110209-0444a.mp3). However when Mr. Brown refers to the late 1950s mass starvation of 30 million more or less in China he does not mention that that famine was mostly caused by Mao’s delirant policy of forcing the removal of millions of Chinese peasants from the agricultural fields to steal production in lousy furnaces to catch up with US’s and UK’s steal production. That “policy” caused a dramatic decline in food production.

Mr. Lester Brown does not indeed mention on the real causes of contemporary famines: not overpopulation nor environmental trobles or limits but bad policies, as stressed by Nobel prize Amartya Sen. And China is still plenty of those.

Yours sincerely,

Pau Serra del Pozo