Pope blasts 'market priorities' that hinder war on hunger

(ANSA) - Rome, November 20 - Pope Francis told a conference at the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Thursday that market priorities were hindering the fight against world hunger. "Nowadays there is much talk of rights, frequently neglecting duties; perhaps we have paid too little heed to those who are hungry," the pope told an international conference on nutrition. "It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by "market priorities", the "primacy of profit", which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature. "And while we speak of new rights, the hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognised as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity".
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