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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What a cynic Mugabe is, to say he’s fighting obesity. His nationalization of land is what’s caused food production to drop. The man should be shot. I leave that to his own people to do the job.
As for this U.N. plan to “redistribute” food, it will result in the same kind of problems that Mugabe’s nationalization plan has. People know how to grow food. There’s no reason why food couldn’t be grown in other parts of the World, if given reasonable freedom and incentives to do so.
As for blaming capitalism, free economies and capitalism work. It’s socialist countries that can’t produce food.
But why would they continue producing food then? Oh yeah, at gunpoint!
D’OH! Should checked the source before posting. Ya got me but good. *blushes*
(In my defense, though, an actual U.N. official probably wouldn’t sound a whole lot different. :-) )
Albinos, Long Shunned, Face Threat in Tanzania [criminal trade in albino body parts]
...Discrimination against albinos is a serious problem throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but recently in Tanzania it has taken a wicked twist: at least 19 albinos, including children, have been killed and mutilated in the past year, victims of what Tanzanian officials say is a growing criminal trade in albino body parts...The UN should look at the model of food production in Zimbabwe. Under Capitalizm it was the African breadbasket; under Marxism it cannot feed itself. - Food for thought.
If you want to redistribute the food, all you have to do is buy it and pay for the shipping...
Honestly, we really need to start whacking these people when they shoot off their mouths
IN the meantime, I think I’ll have an extra bagel for breakfast...
How did Plymouth Colony fare under communism?
Why did it switch to capitalism?
What was the result?
You understand that this isn’t about feeding people, right? Its about power (esp. for Jacques Diouf and his little empire) and food is even more powerful than weapons...
“Every nation where people starve is a tyranny. I don’t think there is any exception to this rule.”
Yep. I think you are right Jalisco.
And what a global food tyranny we would have if the UN were to requisition food at their own corrupt whim.
I can just see
the UN b’crats and leftist politicos getting all the cream for themselves and doling out rice and fly-blown “protein” to the rest of us.
... and can I have a side of Soylent orange with that ?
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