Posted on 06/09/2008 3:59:15 PM PDT by John Semmens
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Jacques Diouf charged that “Americans grow fat while the world starves” and demanded a “redistribution of food.”
The problem stems from capitalism, Diouf said. “Under capitalism, pure greed runs rampant,” he asserted. “Food that should be going to the undernourished poor in the Third World is being sold to obese Americans for profit.”
Diouf suggested that world hunger could be ended if food were parceled out based on need. “Everyone should get the food he needs, whether he is able to pay for it or not,” Diouf declared. “Those who are able to produce the food must be made to provide it whether they are paid or not. Only then will there be justice.”
A plan sketched out by Diouf would have his agency take charge of world food production and distribution. Under the plan, food would be “requisitioned” from producers around the globe and allocated to consumers by a committee of “skilled nutritionists” employed by the UN.
“Overeating will become a thing of the past,” Diouf promised.
In related news, Zimbabwe’s Marxist President Robert Mugabe defended his country’s agricultural policies against widespread criticism that it has caused food shortages. “Do I need to remind everyone that there is an obesity crisis facing the planet?” Mugabe asked. “My policy helps fight this scourge.”
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Pure communism. Plain and simple.
“Move to where the food is.”
Another good one! Can we say “let’m eat dirt”? As Sam Kennison has said “Send them U-Hauls and cardboard boxes”!
Every nation where people starve is a tyranny. I don’t think there is any exception to this rule.
Someday — I swear it — I’m gonna learn to recognize your satire BEFORE I get fished in!
(good job!)
Until that happens, STFU.
Hilarious.
“UN Official Decries Global Maldistribution of Food”
The reason there is still hunger in lots of places...
Because we don’t simply air-drop the food to the places that really
need it.
AFTER we air-drop Special Forces and a load of M-16s, ammo and MREs
and help the starving folks go KILL the dictators/warlords that usually
hijack the American/Western aid sent to their countries.
And them tell them it’s time to consider moving to a better place to
raise crops and/or limit the size of their population if their land
is just hard-scrabble.
And when the UN finally gets their army this will come true. After lots of dead people of course. Followed by millions more who starve to death.
The answer is simple: Just take smaller portions and deep fry it in bacon grease or in Crisco!
“The problem stems from capitalism, Diouf said. “Under capitalism, pure greed runs rampant,” he asserted. “Food that should be going to the undernourished poor in the Third World is being sold to obese Americans for profit.”
Or maybe more nations need to embrace market-oriented policies and enable their own agricultural systems to flourish?
“Diouf suggested that world hunger could be ended if food were parceled out based on need.”
To each according to his needs, eh? Karl would be so proud!
“A plan sketched out by Diouf would have his agency take charge of world food production and distribution.”
And executed with the same integrity and efficiency as the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq.
“Under the plan, food would be “requisitioned” from producers around the globe and allocated to consumers by a committee of “skilled nutritionists” employed by the UN.”
Under the plan, food would be seized by U.N. apparatchiks and mismanaged to the point of tragi-comedy.
“Overeating will become a thing of the past,” Diouf promised.
Yes, the common people will learn to enjoy shortages of substandard food products worldwide.
Dang... you really had me going with this one.
Mainly, ‘cuz it is so darn ~believable~.
Uck-fay ooyay.
Oh man....got me. hehehehehehe.
That dumbazz apparently doesn’t realize capitalism is why we grow and therefore have most of the world’s food supply.
Aw geez, I didn’t catch it before posting the first time.
Jacques Diouf can go pound sand.
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