Ziegler: Starvation Is Homicide -- Send Bankers to Nuremberg

Swiss politician Jean Ziegler, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2000 to April 2008, said on ZDF TV, Sunday, that the bankers responsible for the financial crisis "should be brought in front of a Nuremberg Court for crimes against humanity." Governments' bank bailouts have resulted in pulling money out of existential food programs, such as the one for school meals for one million children in Bangladesh, he said. "That meal is the only one those children have so far received."

Ziegler then cut to the quick: "Scientific and tecnological development has put us in a condition where, today, we can feed 12 billion people with the available means." The moderator interjected: "theoretically." And Ziegler responded: "No, no, fully practically. Today, mortality has been defeated. A child who starves today is an act of homicide."

In a discussion with LaRouche collaborators in May, Ziegler agreed that the bankrupt financial system must be simply thrown away, in its speculative, non-commercial part.