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The article by Gary Marx, ”A hunger so severe that it stunts poor,”
which appeared Sept. 14, contains a major error. The average farmer cannot take in 1,500 calories daily and expend 3,000 calories for more than a short time without dying, since he would have to lose a pound or more a day to make up the energy difference.
The farmer in the story is still alive and reproducing 13 living children after 48 years, so he is eating more and/or working less.
