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UN food chief roasts 'overfed' West [Upset $Bn being "wasted" on feeding obese people in the West]
Livenews.com ^ | 3/06/2008 | staff writer

Posted on 06/04/2008 9:09:37 AM PDT by yankeedame

UN food chief roasts 'overfed' West

3/06/2008 9:51:00 PM.

UN food agency chief Jacques Diouf said today that billions of dollars are being wasted on feeding obese people in the West while millions starve around the world.

"No one understands... how over-consumption by obese people in the world costs $20 billion each year," the head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation told an international summit on the food price crisis.

On top of this, he added, there are "$100 billion in indirect costs resulting from premature deaths and associated diseases."

Diouf also highlighted how an estimated $1.2 trillion was spent on weapons in 2006 while aid to agriculture fell by more than half, from $8 billion in 1984 to $3.4 billion in 2004.

"In real terms, the share of agriculture in public aid to development has fallen from 17 per cent in 1980 to three per cent in 2006," he said.

Recent food riots "are but the chronicle of a catastrophe that was foreseen," said Diouf, whose agency has been harshly criticised.

Diouf lamented the failure to reach a goal set by the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome of reducing the number of hungry by half by 2015.

"With current trends the summit's goal will be attained in 2150 instead of 2015," he added.

Diouf said "the international community reacts, unfortunately, only when the media bring into the living rooms of wealthy countries the sad spectacle of those who suffer in the world."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burningfood; fao; foodsupply; gloriesofcommunism; jacquesdiouf; politicsoffood; un; unoutofus; usoutofun
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1 posted on 06/04/2008 9:09:37 AM PDT by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame

Sounds like an Obama supporter!


2 posted on 06/04/2008 9:10:42 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: yankeedame

those pictures are a little gross. But what are we supposed to do? Take the cotton candy from the fat kid and give it to the skinny kid? You can’t. The warlords/dictators/corrupt juntas running his country’s economy won’t allow it.


3 posted on 06/04/2008 9:11:47 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: yankeedame

Jacques Diouf needs to take a field trip to Zimbabwe to discover how the breadbasket of Africa can be transformed into the basket case of Africa within just one generation by following the polocies condoned by the United Nations.


4 posted on 06/04/2008 9:13:01 AM PDT by Vigilanteman ((Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud))
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To: babble-on

Property rights. Rule of law.


5 posted on 06/04/2008 9:13:08 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: yankeedame

Its a very sad thing having starving people in other parts of the world. But America has always given more to help the hungry of the world.

America does not want to be told by the UN how we need to control our food or who in the US can eat or not eat. I know the Democrats and Obama probably buy in to the notion this guy is promulgating in comments.


6 posted on 06/04/2008 9:13:26 AM PDT by ncfool (Savage said that Islam is a Peaceful religion. Your very peaceful after they slit your throat!)
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To: yankeedame

Stop socialism and get rid of dictators and poor people will have plenty to eat.

Simple.


7 posted on 06/04/2008 9:13:54 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: yankeedame

Isn’t it enough that Sally Struthers makes us feel bad about being able to feed ourselves?


8 posted on 06/04/2008 9:14:28 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: yankeedame

Notice how he fails to mention the enormous amount of UN food aid that has been stolen in places like Somalia and elsewhere. The thieves are often government officials or, like Somalia, armed warlords against whom the UN was woefully impotent.


9 posted on 06/04/2008 9:14:30 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: yankeedame

Geez, I feel so bad now I can’t finish my fries.

Okay, maybe just a few more...

Oh well, all gone. Guess I deserve to be taxed and condemned because I have a full belly now.


10 posted on 06/04/2008 9:15:41 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“Property rights. Rule of law.”

Bullseye.

Along with a culture dominated by stable, intact nuclear families you have the trifecta of fuel that ignites civilisation.


11 posted on 06/04/2008 9:16:24 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: yankeedame

Goes with this thread...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2025880/posts

We can send them some unwanted animals.


12 posted on 06/04/2008 9:16:38 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Iron Mom. (but really made from Gold plated titanium))
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To: Abathar

If you don’t finish your french fries, then someone in Africa will starve.

(updating the old “china” lecture from my childhood)


13 posted on 06/04/2008 9:17:08 AM PDT by GreyFriar ( 3rd Armored Division - Spearhead)
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To: Vigilanteman

Israel has learned to turn Arid lands in to blooming fields of foods. This is one of the areas that if Israel was not always attacked by the Lefting leaning UN they could help the world. Arab nations have boycotted Israel from participating in some Growing and land irrigation programs in Africa and the Middle East.


14 posted on 06/04/2008 9:17:16 AM PDT by ncfool (Savage said that Islam is a Peaceful religion. Your very peaceful after they slit your throat!)
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To: yankeedame

Typical socialist crap - everything is a zero sum game, there is only limited good, complete ignorance of economics, and the facile and false notion that it’s simply a matter of forcing a transfer from one party to another.


15 posted on 06/04/2008 9:18:08 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Slapshot68

Last Time I saw Sally she looked like she was eating for an entire nation...

“Isn’t it enough that Sally Struthers makes us feel bad about being able to feed ourselves?”


16 posted on 06/04/2008 9:18:26 AM PDT by ncfool (Savage said that Islam is a Peaceful religion. Your very peaceful after they slit your throat!)
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To: yankeedame

Maybe they should make those $100 laptops edible...kill two birds with one stone.


17 posted on 06/04/2008 9:18:43 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: yankeedame
Sam Kinison was fat, and strangely, he also had the answer to world hunger pegged.

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

18 posted on 06/04/2008 9:18:46 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: yankeedame

I’ve never seen the government spend one penny on any private citizens health or well being except polio


19 posted on 06/04/2008 9:19:01 AM PDT by devistate one four (Nam 67-68)
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To: Vigilanteman
"Jacques Diouf needs to take a field trip to Zimbabwe to discover how the breadbasket of Africa can be transformed into the basket case of Africa within just one generation by following the polocies condoned by the United Nations."

Zimbabwe Crisis: White Farming Couple Beaten And Kicked Off Land

20 posted on 06/04/2008 9:19:22 AM PDT by blam
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