Corn for Food, NOT for Fuel
Posted by terres on April 9, 2008
“We are hungry!”
Food riots have broken out in Port Au Prince, Haiti, due to soaring food prices. The violent clashes that have paralyzed the city left 5 people dead.
In El Salvador, sky-high food prices, especially corn, the staple diet of South America, led to protests. Women took to the streets banging their pots and pans, shouting “we are hungry!” Video report
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India: A soul-sick nation with a diseased psyche that spends billions of dollars on its military and nuclear armament, instead of her people!
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Ayesha Lakhani said
Over the years, we’ve been inundated with the statistics and the pictures of poverty around the world-so much so that many people in both the North and South have come to accept it as an unfortunate but unalterable state of affairs. The truth, however, is that things have changed in recent years. The world today is more prosperous than it ever has been. The technological advances we have seen in recent years have created encouraging new opportunities to improve economies and reduce hunger.
This will help all you people on this blog to do something along with the United Nations in your locality.
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http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=47234928
feww said
Ayesha Lakhani
Are you an employee of End Poverty 2015, a pathological liar, or does the chutzpah come naturally?
“The things” have indeed changed in the recent years and that’s why people are getting themselves killed rioting because they can’t afford the sky-rocketing food prices.
If you double the daily income of the poor from $1 to $2 per day, but quadruple the food prices, they end up being twice worse off. [And that's exactly what's happening now!]
Will the extreme poverty be halved, or better still totally eradicated by 2015? Of course it will [sic.] The poor will be left to starve to death!
“all you people on this blog” will reconsider the UN claims about reducing poverty, if all of the [over-] paid employees of the United Nations (the SG, directors, commissioners, ambassadors, lawyers, accountants …) donated 50 percent of their 2008 income to the world’s poor.
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