Gordon Brown Says World 'Cannot Aford To Fail' On Food Crisis

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6-3-2008 | Tom Peterkin

[blam]

Zimbabwe Crisis: White Farming Couple Beaten And Kicked Off Land

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Rich Countries 'Failed To Heed' Food Crisis Warnings

See...it's your fault!!

[marsh2]

Is anyone making the connection between high fuel prices and inadequate food production? They could lay the problem at the feet of OPEC.

[I see my hands]

To: Gordon Brown

"9,000 under-fives starving to death each day"

Feel free to rescue as many as you care to.

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Leaders at UN food summit tone down menu over fears of hypocrisy

[Eaker]

9,000 under-fives starving to death each day.

Maybe they can quit screwing like dogs and take care of the existing brood that they knew that they couldn't afford? Perhaps more real work and less sex?

[bill1952]

Oh, please. What total bullsh*t.

Sam Kinnison had solved this problem 20 years ago, but nobody listened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKNoJ2BzSRU&feature=related

I am serious - watch his solution and tell me it does not make sense...

[RC2]

Stop using corn for everything but food. How many people can the earth support?

[kittymyrib]

And we are supposed to send billions to the crooks at the UN, who stole the “Oil for Food” money in Iraq and let the babies starve? No thanks. Let the churches handle feeding the poor. The UN is too corrupt.

[RC2]

How about other countries pick up a shovel and plant their own food. OH....I forgot, nothing grows in the desert but they won’t move out..........stupid.

[thundrey]

Well done! It must have taken you at least 5 seconds to come up with that opinion. It must have been a mammoth struggle for you to concentrate for that long. Sadly, the idea you came up with itself was not good enough to make it past the gate as an opinion that should be taken seriously rather than mocked for it’s hilarious half-arsedness....

[Farmer Dean]

The situation is truely hopeless.The culture exhorts to have as many kids as possible,reality be damned.There is nothing we can do to deliver them from their ignorance.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

It doesn't matter how many the Earth can support.

The Underdeveloped countries will ALWAYS produce more than the Earth can support, then beg someone else to feed them while they're off making yet more.

[uptoolate]

Awe sheesh! Not another crisis.

[stboz]

Why not have one, last drunken, ethanol-induced orgy and then push "The Button" and end all this nonsense?

No more 12th Imams, no Jaysus is gonna git yew, no more my God's gonna beat your god's ass?...please pass the catsup, my shoe-leather is a bit chewy.

Okay, I'll take my meds now.....

[tickmeister]

Ann Coulter still has the best solution to solving the problems of the world’s poorest countries. Kill their leaders, take over their countries, convert them to capitalism. (OK, that last word is mine, but it will work.)

This would give the UN something to do.

[tbw2]

Mandate that for food aid they must accept norplant / depo provera / contraceptive shots.
If you cannot feed the children you have, you cannot be allowed to have more.
And if they were not burdened breeding machines, maybe they’d have more time, energy, attention and food for the existing children.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Well, you've poked fun at Eaker's post, but have not said a serious word to negate it. One can only suppose that you have an extremely weak debate.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Nor is a great idea. I'm tired of paying the tax dollars that are subsidizing them for making yet MORE mouths that are going to need to be fed in 5 years.

The truth of the matter is that if Western capitalism hadn't made the world so wealthy, these excess people would have died long since.

Even if the West feeds them, it can't keep on feeding them. and who's going to feed their children and grandchildren?

not me. sorry. I'm busyworking to feed my own children and grandchildren. If these "poor" would emulate my example, there'd be no problem, now would there?