http://www.impactlab.com/2008/05/03/key-to-hunger-problem-stop-sending-food/ A laboratory of the future human experience Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:47:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.impactlab.com/2008/05/03/key-to-hunger-problem-stop-sending-food/comment-page-1/#comment-9650 Key to Hunger Problem - Stop Sending Food « The Keelynet Blog Fri, 09 May 2008 03:48:45 +0000 http://www.impactlab.com/2008/05/03/key-to-hunger-problem-stop-sending-food/#comment-9650 [...] If you CHOOSE to live in a high risk area with potential problems such as floods, mudslides, earthquakes, drought, famine, disease, etc., then you invite problems and shouldn’t be bitching about it when it finally hits. “Rapidly increasing world food prices have already led to political upheaval in poor countries. The crisis threatens to tear apart fragile states and become a humanitarian calamity unless countries get their agricultural systems moving. Now, with conference committee negotiations over the final shape of the Farm Bill at a critical stage, Congress needs to change the foreign food-aid program and help avert this calamity. The Bush administration has urged, rightly, that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) be allowed to buy food locally, particularly in Africa, instead of only American-grown food. / Sam Kinnison says – From an appearance on Rodney Dangerfield’s “It’s Not Easy Being Me,” 1984.” - Source [...] [...] If you CHOOSE to live in a high risk area with potential problems such as floods, mudslides, earthquakes, drought, famine, disease, etc., then you invite problems and shouldn’t be bitching about it when it finally hits. “Rapidly increasing world food prices have already led to political upheaval in poor countries. The crisis threatens to tear apart fragile states and become a humanitarian calamity unless countries get their agricultural systems moving. Now, with conference committee negotiations over the final shape of the Farm Bill at a critical stage, Congress needs to change the foreign food-aid program and help avert this calamity. The Bush administration has urged, rightly, that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) be allowed to buy food locally, particularly in Africa, instead of only American-grown food. / Sam Kinnison says – From an appearance on Rodney Dangerfield’s “It’s Not Easy Being Me,” 1984.” – Source [...]

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