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Opinion

BY EVAN FRASER

March 23, 2020

The latest data from the United Nations are staggering. In 2019, 821 million people around the world were chronically under nourished, up 10 million from the year before. This means that an astounding 11 per cent of the world's population does not get enough food to e...

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