Posted on 04/21/2020 12:22:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The head of the U.N. food agency warned Tuesday that, as the world is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, it is also “on the brink of a hunger pandemic” that could lead to “multiple famines of biblical proportions” within a few months if immediate action isn’t taken.
World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley told the U.N. Security Council that even before COVID-19 became an issue, he was telling world leaders that “2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.” That’s because of wars in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, locust swarms in Africa, frequent natural disasters and economic crises including in Lebanon, Congo, Sudan and Ethiopia, he said.
Beasley said today 821 million people go to bed hungry every night all over the world, a further 135 million people are facing “crisis levels of hunger or worse,” and a new World Food Program analysis shows that as a result of COVID-19 an additional 130 million people “could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020.”
He said in the video briefing that WFP is providing food to nearly 100 million people on any given day, including “about 30 million people who literally depend on us to stay alive.”
Beasley, who is recovering from COVID-19, said if those 30 million people can’t be reached, “our analysis shows that 300,000 people could starve to death every single day over a three-month period” — and that doesn’t include increased starvation due to the coronavirus. …
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‘Batskin-Robbins’
ha ha ha...
Let them use the money they are already spending on stupid stuff harvesting the swarming locusts in Africa and teaching people how to cook them instead-locusts/grasshoppers are protein rich and tasty when roasted-but I’m sure the UN wants these “hungry” people to be given tons of corn and potatoes, etc that they don’t have any idea how to grow themselves and chickens goats and other livestock they have no idea how keep and breed-so they just eat all the produce and livestock and have no food again...
Yes, I have eaten grasshoppers and other similar things-my 1st hubby and I were into going on survival retreats in New Mexico, Arizona, etc, learning to live totally in hunter-gatherer mode in a mock SHTF situation-roasted grasshoppers seasoned with garlic and chili powder are crunchy and not bad at all-bush potato chips...
Let me guess. The crisis can be averted if the United States just sends a couple of billion dollars to some third-world bureaucrat.
Close the borders. Everywhere.
YEP. Only places lacking in food are those third world countries dictators confiscate the tons of food WE SEND THEM. Time for Trump to hand that over to SAMARITAN’S PURSE.
31 Bio-weapons.
Trump threatens to not financially support WHO in their ChiCom agenda,
and the UN responds with a new crisis, this time a 'food Shortage'.
If true, perhaps we should stop burning corn to make alcohol, in order to water-down our gasoline.
Not bad if we had a fuel shortage,.. but we don't !
If they stop burning corn to make bourbon, THEN we will have a crisis...
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