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UN Official Decries Global Maldistribution of Food
AZCONSERVATIVE ^ | 7 June 2008 | John Semmens

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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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Humor
KEYWORDS: famine; fao; foodsupply; mugabe; satire; socialism; un
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1 posted on 06/09/2008 3:59:16 PM PDT by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

Pure communism. Plain and simple.


2 posted on 06/09/2008 4:02:06 PM PDT by bcsco (To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
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To: John Semmens

“Move to where the food is.”


3 posted on 06/09/2008 4:03:35 PM PDT by Stentor (Obama supporters. Letting the little void do the thinking for the big void.)
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To: John Semmens

Another good one! Can we say “let’m eat dirt”? As Sam Kennison has said “Send them U-Hauls and cardboard boxes”!


4 posted on 06/09/2008 4:04:42 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: John Semmens

Every nation where people starve is a tyranny. I don’t think there is any exception to this rule.


5 posted on 06/09/2008 4:04:52 PM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: John Semmens

Someday — I swear it — I’m gonna learn to recognize your satire BEFORE I get fished in!

(good job!)


6 posted on 06/09/2008 4:05:07 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (I've left Cynical City... bound for Jaded.)
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To: John Semmens
Want more food? Then grow it or trade for it. I'll be damned if I'm going to listen to some diaperhead tell me to cut back when his country is nothing more than a third-world islamic cesspool.
7 posted on 06/09/2008 4:05:28 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: John Semmens
Get Zimbabwe to provide it, they are or were the breadbasket of Africa. Just ask the leader of the food conference to provide all the extra food that he has. /s

Until that happens, STFU.

8 posted on 06/09/2008 4:05:52 PM PDT by SledgeCS (Build the fence. Deport the Illegals. Sell all their assets to cover the cost.)
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To: John Semmens

Hilarious.


9 posted on 06/09/2008 4:06:32 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("a wee bit silly." -Lord Trimble on Hillary Clinton's claim of foreign policy "experience".)
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To: John Semmens

“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.


10 posted on 06/09/2008 4:07:04 PM PDT by VOA
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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.


11 posted on 06/09/2008 4:08:17 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: Red_Devil 232
Sam Kinison on world hunger
12 posted on 06/09/2008 4:08:52 PM PDT by Stentor (Obama supporters. Letting the little void do the thinking for the big void.)
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““Overeating will become a thing of the past,” Diouf promised.”

The answer is simple: Just take smaller portions and deep fry it in bacon grease or in Crisco!

13 posted on 06/09/2008 4:13:57 PM PDT by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: John Semmens

“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.


14 posted on 06/09/2008 4:14:16 PM PDT by DemforBush
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To: John Semmens

Dang... you really had me going with this one.

Mainly, ‘cuz it is so darn ~believable~.


15 posted on 06/09/2008 4:15:51 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Jacques Diouf charged that “Americans grow fat while the world starves”

Uck-fay ooyay.

16 posted on 06/09/2008 4:16:58 PM PDT by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: krb

Oh man....got me. hehehehehehe.


17 posted on 06/09/2008 4:18:06 PM PDT by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: John Semmens

That dumbazz apparently doesn’t realize capitalism is why we grow and therefore have most of the world’s food supply.


18 posted on 06/09/2008 4:25:15 PM PDT by piytar
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To: Nervous Tick

Aw geez, I didn’t catch it before posting the first time.


19 posted on 06/09/2008 4:28:21 PM PDT by piytar
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To: John Semmens

Jacques Diouf can go pound sand.


20 posted on 06/09/2008 4:29:55 PM PDT by wastedyears (Like a bat outta Hell.)
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