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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Kill them.
We currently have so much food in our refrigerator that I need to wedge a boom against the door to keep it closed.
Let ‘em eat bats.
Rhodesia was the bread basket of Africa.
What happened?
Only the US printing press can save untold millions of lives.
Tired of it.
No one at the worthless UN could warn us about anything in January, but have President Trump mention funding and now there’s a dire warning every day.
Maybe Batskin-Robbins can start making bat ice cream - double your pleasure...
Social distancing, dontcha know....
Considering the obesity epidemic, this might not be a totally bad thing.
WELL STOP BEING ANTICHRIST SOCIALISTS AND MAYBE THINGS WILL GET BETTER!
UN, WHO, CDC.... F/&i
I thought the UN wanted people to eat more insects. There are billions of them in Africa right now, free for the taking.
Globalists are evil
Eat them.
Corona-Cream
Bat Soup Swirl
Virus Vanilla
CCP Cover-Up Crunch
Praline Pangolin
Rocky Recovery Road
etc
etc
etc
“if immediate action isn’t taken. “
which i assume means the USA should give away enough food to feed the rest of the world for free ...
So let me get this straight.
Some don’t want anyone warning that extended shut-downs and the resulting devastation of the largest free economy in the world will have bad effects on people outside the USA.
I see your point. /s
If anyone else said this... I might take it seriously.
But coming from the UN?
File 13.
I bought some canned stuff, and put it in the garage for later in the year, if needed. Pantry is full.
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