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To: DEPcom

I have been hearing about food shortages coming in the next few weeks to months. WHO announced last week food shortages would be happening as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/africa/coronavirus-hunger-crisis.html

‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms.

The coronavirus has sometimes been called an equalizer because it has sickened both rich and poor, but when it comes to food, the commonality ends. It is poor people, including large segments of poorer nations, who are now going hungry and facing the prospect of starving.

“The coronavirus has been anything but a great equalizer,” said Asha Jaffar, a volunteer who brought food to families in the Nairobi slum of Kibera after the fatal stampede. “It’s been the great revealer, pulling the curtain back on the class divide and exposing how deeply unequal this country is.”

Already, 135 million people had been facing acute food shortages, but now with the pandemic, 130 million more could go hungry in 2020, said Arif Husain, chief economist at the World Food Program, a United Nations agency. Altogether, an estimated 265 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by year’s end.


23 posted on 04/26/2020 8:47:39 AM PDT by EBH (DNC=Party NON GRATA)
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To: EBH

I walked thru SAM”S CLUB yesterday in Greensburg, Penna
and the meat bins were almost empty-—including both
pork and beef!! It is here now!!


30 posted on 04/26/2020 9:14:05 AM PDT by oldbugleboy (oldbugleboy)
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