SOF: The Gods of Business

Listening to the podcast of Speaking of Faith while at work. The topic is "The Gods of Business" and the guest Prabhu Guptara. He said:
"I think most of us have no problem with a system which allows reasonable accumulation of wealth gained in return for the exertion of intelligence, industry, risk-taking and sheer effort. But I think most people in the world do have a problem with a system which allows unlimited accumulation of wealth AT THE SAME TIME as allowing millions of people to have nothing when they are exerting as much energy and intelligence as other people. Friends, 3,500 children died today — because they had no food or water. Three thousand five hundred will die tomorrow for the same reasons. And the day after. And every day… till you and I decide to do something about it. What was merely a tragedy yesterday is today a tragedy as well as an obscenity, for we live in a time of over-supply of all basic goods for the first time in history, which makes it entirely unnecessary for anyone to starve, or have no clothes or to have no roof of some basic sort over their heads."
This has lead me to set a goal--to educate myself about the agricultural system in the US, how decisions are made about import and export, large and small farm production, organic and GM food, and so on. Once I know more about what is going on, I can decide where to contribute. First stop, amazon.com for a look at the books.