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Thu 05 May 2004Lula urges free and balanced trade to end povertyCHINA: Hunger was the "worst of all weapons of mass destruction" and claimed millions of victims each year, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil said to loud applause at the Shanghai Conference on Poverty Reduction yesterday.In an impassioned address, the Latin American leader launched a thinly-veiled attack on the EU and the US when he condemned "scandalous" agriculture subsidies in developed countries which meant more money was spent on cows than on people.