
Bonus: The Great Protein Fiasco
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The reason why colonial administrators and the international institutions emphasized protein was because it doesn't implicate poverty. John nott mentions in his history of this episode that people were actually ing the colonial administrators that liked its poverty, and they were being actively censored. He says, over the course of the year, representative preliminary reports were depoliticized by the colonial office to remove any suggestion that low wages, inadequate returns from cash crops and lines in food production were complicit in the pervasive pattern of malnutrition. O it's so gross and so, in retrospect, so predictable. Rankly, that's what power does, is preserve itself. And also, this whole thing of education does the same thing.