Since multinational grain companies operate so as to maximize profits, they cannot be relied on to initiate economic changes that would reform the world’s food-distribution system. Although it is true that the actions of multinational companies sometimes do result in such economic change, this result is incidental, arising not from the desire profits normally depends on a stable economic environment, one that discourages change.
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