Ahead by a large margin - receiving more than 70% of the vote - were food speculation funds.
This argument over price volatility is simply an excuse: food commodity speculation is bad just because it is and it must be stopped.
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He is horribly, howlingly, confused about the effects of speculation in food commodities.
What is needed is to stop speculation on food commodities which causes prices to soar so hungry people can't afford them.
Following the Wall Street Crash in the 1930s, regulations were introduced by the US government to limit speculation on food prices.
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One of their major campaigns at present is about speculation in food.
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The global economic crisis hit Egypt as hard as most countries, but was especially devastating because of the increasing speculation on food by Wall Street.
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One of the great debates going on in activist circles in the UK at present is how can we manage to ban or curtail speculation in food?
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The proximate cause of this shortage is speculation in food.
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The assumption, indeed often the statement, is that speculation increases either food prices or the volatility of food prices and thus we want to ban it.
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How many entrepreneurs will invest in new food and energy sources when a currency is collapsing, investors are fleeing to speculation, and green wackos are blocking breakthroughs in nanotech and genetically modified food?
Shares of other food companies in the sector also rose amid speculation that the Heinz deal could trigger a wave of mergers.
Fears that a global food crisis is around the corner have fueled speculation of contagion across North Africa and eventually the Middle East. (Read On the Verge of a Global Food Crisis).
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Worldwide food prices have been high since 2006, when speculation by traders caused staples such as rice to rise by up to 320 per cent in a year.
Given that such speculation produces exactly the result that we desire, more food for people to eat, why do these people insist that we must have less of what saves lives?
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How many entrepreneurs will invest in new food and energy sources when a currency is collapsing, investors are fleeing to speculation, capital gains taxes are set to go up and green zealots are blocking breakthroughs in nanotech and genetically modified food?
It has fuelled speculation of a delay to make sure the Olympic games in August were not marred by a food scare.
It now issues guides to a dozen European countries, and while its annual ratings may not inspire quite the same feverish speculation in Pisa as they do in Paris, Michelin stars, wherever bestowed, shine in food circles like a well-glazed sweetmeat.
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