A food fight over Food for Peace

by David Rodgers

After a decade of foreign wars, who’d have thought Washington would now be fighting over something called “Food for Peace”? Yet almost half the House Republicans voted against funding the Eisenhower-era icon in the previous Congress. And Wednesday found Rajiv Shah — the bright young star at the United States Agency for International Development — promoting wholesale changes that threaten old alliances with American farmers and mariners.

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