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Does Goldman Sachs kill babies?

Between 2006 and 2008, food prices shot up all around the world. “Within a year,” says British journalist Johann Hari ‘the price of wheat had shot up by 80 percent, maize by 90 percent, and rice by 320 percent. In a global jolt of hunger, 200 million people - mostly children - couldn't afford to get food any more, and sank into malnutrition or starvation.” Across the developing world hungry people took to the streets to demand food. There were riots in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Mexico, Bolivia, Pakistan and many other Asian and African nations. And who was to blame for this surge of global misery? Hari points the finger at Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. Is he right?