More U.N. BS

[Kiwon]

World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php

Yeah, right.

[LL2]

That was funny!

On a serious note, it's not funny that there are still too many homeless people in this country that struggle to get a decent meal. You think about all the food that goes to waste at restaurants and at grocery stores that could feed these people.

[Joemailman]

I don't get it. What's funny about dwindling food supplies needed for the third world where starvation really does happen?

[Kiwon]

Why do you believe whatever the U.N. "experts" say? It's bogus.

Oh, what to do, what to do?

"Diouf blamed a confluence of recent supply and demand factors for the crisis, and he predicted that those factors were here to stay.

On the supply side, these include the early effects of global warming, which has decreased crop yields in some crucial places,

-- the omnipresent villian of global warming. These are the "early effects" They have already assumed what the later effects will be.

and a shift away from farming for human consumption toward crops for biofuels and cattle feed.

-- the world-wide obesity problem and trend toward using food for fuel

Demand for grain is increasing with the world population,

-- you are having too many babies, have more abortions

and more is diverted to feed cattle as the population of upwardly mobile meat-eaters grows.

-- You brat-eating Packer fans are evil, vegans are saints

"We're concerned that we are facing the perfect storm for the world's hungry," said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Program, in a telephone interview. She said that her agency's food procurement costs had gone up 50 percent in the past 5 years and that some poor people are being "priced out of the food market."

--Governments need to tax you fat slobs to get you to eat less and subsidize the cost of food for the starving of the world.

To make matters worse,

-- the news can only be bad

high oil prices have doubled shipping costs in the past year, putting enormous stress on poor nations that need to import food as well as the humanitarian agencies that provide it."

-- Stop being so selfish and using up the world's oil supply by driving your gas-guzzling cars, manufacturing so much and consuming more than your fair share.

Main message: It's YOUR FAULT that people are starving in the world!

Three points:
1. The Third World is always starving because most famines are man-made through corrupt and inefficient governments.
2. The best solution to alleviating the problem of hunger is democracy.
3. No other country in the world does more to supply food and medicine to the world's needy than the U.S.A.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

A glimpse into your warped schema.

The horror... the horror..

[hoosier]

I think someone isn't playing with a full deck here....

[swede]

The amusing thing about liberals is that 98% of them don't do anything practical to assist the poor. That's why they are comfortable in speaking ignorantly about helping the poor.

We have friends--cal them compassionate conservatives--that literally risked their lives to go into Haiti to bring food, clothing, medical attention, and a helping hand.

They found an institutionalized governmental corruption underlaid with a pervasive system of civil corruption at the local level interlaced with parasitic con-men that received and kept every penny of the money sent to the poor people of Haiti by well-meaning Americans.

Plant nut trees? The government will cut them down and sell them before the village can bring in a harvest.

Plant a community garden? The local sheriff confiscates the produce to eat and sell.

Build a house for a friendly family? (one room cinder block no glass windows) Return next year to find one of the sheriff's men living inside claiming he "bought" it.

Send money to the "goat man" to give every family a goat? No goats! What a surprise? Only pictures of goats for the suckers back in the US--and a wealthy goat man in Haiti.

The UN resides here like a giant scolding parasite. Corruption abroad is keeping the people down, not big American cars. Sheesh.

[the_idle_threat]

Swede and Kiwon have nailed this one. There is plenty of food and aid to feed all the hungry in the world, and perhaps even make them maybe a third as fat as the average American. But corrupt local leaders, whether they be political leaders or warlords, use starvation as a political tool---to maintain power. All the aid is seized by them sooner or later after it enters the country.

Global warming, crop yields, oil prices, fuel consumption, etc. have nothing to do with it.

[Freak Out]

Global warming, crop yields, oil prices, fuel consumption, etc. have nothing to do with it.

That statement is so ludicrous it's laughable dude! Come on....
I agree that corruption and war/strife and so on...play a big role in why some people go hungry or starve in the world but there are many more factors that come into play in lots of places.

[the_idle_threat]

Global warming, crop yields, oil prices, fuel consumption, etc. have nothing to do with it.

That statement is so ludicrous it's laughable dude! Come on....
I agree that corruption and war/strife and so on...play a big role in why some people go hungry or starve in the world but there are many more factors that come into play in lots of places.

You're entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is. "Many more factors that come into play in lots of places" is so general that it's meaningless. Care to share an example of what you're referring to?

Global warming, oil prices, etc. might be problems in their own right (and I emphasize "might," because I believe they're way overhyped), but they're not the cause of mass starvation where it exists in the world. Whatever changes people want to claim in world temperature can't begin to reverse the enormous strides that have been made over the years in crop yields. I don't buy it. Agricultural science has improved crop yields so greatly over the decades that crop prices have gone down rather than up (in terms of real dollars) over the years due to the ever-increasing supply; this is why the government feels the need to offer farm subsidies to keep producers in business, and/or pays some farmers not to farm their fields.

There is plenty of food, and if we're worried about dwindling supply raising prices in one season, the shortfall will be fixed the next season since there is so much slack in producing capacity.

The problem is getting food to the hungry, as is addressed above.

[Freak Out]

Global warming, crop yields, oil prices, fuel consumption, etc. have nothing to do with it.

That statement is so ludicrous it's laughable dude! Come on....
I agree that corruption and war/strife and so on...play a big role in why some people go hungry or starve in the world but there are many more factors that come into play in lots of places.

You're entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is. "Many more factors that come into play in lots of places" is so general that it's meaningless. Care to share an example of what you're referring to?

Global warming, oil prices, etc. might be problems in their own right (and I emphasize "might," because I believe they're way overhyped), but they're not the cause of mass starvation where it exists in the world. Whatever changes people want to claim in world temperature can't begin to reverse the enormous strides that have been made over the years in crop yields. I don't buy it. Agricultural science has improved crop yields so greatly over the decades that crop prices have gone down rather than up (in terms of real dollars) over the years due to the ever-increasing supply; this is why the government feels the need to offer farm subsidies to keep producers in business, and/or pays some farmers not to farm their fields.

There is plenty of food, and if we're worried about dwindling supply raising prices in one season, the shortfall will be fixed the next season since there is so much slack in producing capacity.

The problem is getting food to the hungry, as is addressed above.

Crop yields have gone way up if you can buy the seed, fertilizer and materials needed to make it happen but there are people in the world today that are still subsistence farmers and there are many factors that determine whether or not they can grow enough food to survive and weather is a big factor....global warming or not. I know its hard to believe for some but not everyone on the planet can drive down to the Safeway when they are hungry and whip out the visa card or food stamps to load up on fucking ding dongs.
...and getting food to the people that really need it is much easier said than done...and oil prices "might" be a factor? are we still in the age of sail here? How are things transported around the planet? Telekinesis? There may be plenty of food but most of the entities that control it aren't going to give it away....someone has to pay for it.
Developed countries have stable infrastructure that can produce and move the food we eat around rapidly and we can feed the hungry in our country with handouts pretty easily but that is not the case in some areas.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

The amusing thing about liberals is that 98% of them don't do anything practical to assist the poor. That's why they are comfortable in speaking ignorantly about helping the poor.

We have friends--cal them compassionate conservatives--that literally risked their lives to go into Haiti to bring food, clothing, medical attention, and a helping hand.

They found an institutionalized governmental corruption underlaid with a pervasive system of civil corruption at the local level interlaced with parasitic con-men that received and kept every penny of the money sent to the poor people of Haiti by well-meaning Americans.

Plant nut trees? The government will cut them down and sell them before the village can bring in a harvest.

Plant a community garden? The local sheriff confiscates the produce to eat and sell.

Build a house for a friendly family? (one room cinder block no glass windows) Return next year to find one of the sheriff's men living inside claiming he "bought" it.

Send money to the "goat man" to give every family a goat? No goats! What a surprise? Only pictures of goats for the suckers back in the US--and a wealthy goat man in Haiti.

The UN resides here like a giant scolding parasite. Corruption abroad is keeping the people down, not big American cars. Sheesh.

Interesting rant. Too bad it had nothing to do with the posted article.

No mention of starvation, no mention of governments, no mention of cars.

It would be nice if, whatever you call youself, stepped back from your rigid worldview and politics to consider alternate possibilities. Not asking you to change..just to consider.

[Kiwon]

The amusing thing about liberals is that 98% of them don't do anything practical to assist the poor. That's why they are comfortable in speaking ignorantly about helping the poor.

Swede, what are you talking about?

What could be more practical in assisting the poor, especially those in war-torn countries, than urging everyone to have an orgasm on the same day?
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WHY? To effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth through input of the largest possible instantaneous surge of human biological, mental and spiritual energy.

[Kiwon]

Very practical, indeed.

Oh look, the lives of the hungry and poor are improving already. Liberals, thank you. You truly care!

http://www.svcmulti.com/bwitness/

[the_idle_threat]

Crop yields have gone way up if you can buy the seed, fertilizer and materials needed to make it happen but there are people in the world today that are still subsistence farmers and there are many factors that determine whether or not they can grow enough food to survive and weather is a big factor....global warming or not. I know its hard to believe for some but not everyone on the planet can drive down to the Safeway when they are hungry and whip out the visa card or food stamps to load up on fucking ding dongs.
...and getting food to the people that really need it is much easier said than done...and oil prices "might" be a factor? are we still in the age of sail here? How are things transported around the planet? Telekinesis? There may be plenty of food but most of the entities that control it aren't going to give it away....someone has to pay for it.
Developed countries have stable infrastructure that can produce and move the food we eat around rapidly and we can feed the hungry in our country with handouts pretty easily but that is not the case in some areas.

Nice rant, but still wrong. You know I'm not saying everyone in the word can buy food at "Safeway".

What areas? You still throw out these generalizations and can't come up with an example of which poor starving people you're referring to. I've already stated that I'm referring to starving people in Africa whose so-called governments keep the people poor and hungry as a measure to control them. Gas prices could be 10 cents a gallon and global temps could be perfectly stable, and these people would still be starving because that's what their leaders have decided the people will do.