UN food chief roasts 'overfed' West [Upset $Bn being "wasted" on feeding obese people in the West]

Livenews.com ^ | 3/06/2008 | staff writer

[rlmorel]

"..."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..."

Clue phone for the idiot at the U.N....could it be that money and materials dedicated to help are squandered, misappropriated and outright STOLEN by the UN when they aren't raping little girls and boys?

[RSmithOpt]

no=not

[AnotherUnixGeek]

No one understands... how over-consumption by obese people in the world costs $20 billion each year

Does it? Well, it's their money and they're free to spend it any damn way they please, even if some worthless UN bureaucrat doesn't like it.

[CSM]

Hmmm, socialism vs. capitalism, hmmm, what to chose?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“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.”

I am always a fan of one-sentence summations as long as they are not spin. Very well said, thank you.

[metesky]

That’s because he doesn’t have a good Jewish tailor.

[Centurion2000]

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.

Like this POS has never had foie gras, creme brulee or champaigne?

[rlmorel]

The UN doesn’t just prop up those corrupt, evil governments, they put them on the UN Human Rights Commission.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Totally agree. Cut UN expense accounts down to zero NOW. Send proceeds to Africa.

[ctdonath2]

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.

Apples and slices of oranges. What's the figure on the TOTAL spent on food - not just "aid", but all food?

[God luvs America]

I agree with you...I will say that the amount of food people waste is a sin for a variety of reasons- that said are we to be blamed two years from now for the starving people in Myramar??? Are we to be blamed for the corrupt African governments who take our generous donations and use them as political leverage???

this may be looked upon as shrill but when I donate money, and I give generously, it is to US based organizations helping Americans, and I do so for a reason....and I am not ignorant enough to think that all US based charity’s are saints either...

[Redleg Duke]

Yep, let’s hear it for “Equality of Outcome”, not “Equality of Opportunity”!

[Redleg Duke]

"The thieves are often government officials or, like Somalia, armed warlords against whom the UN was woefully impotent."

But, they are black, so it is okay! They are justified, don't you know? It is all "Whitey's" fault!

[nhoward14]

I was hoping somebody would bring Starvin Marvin into this so I wouldn’t have to.

Cartman after being dumped in Ethiopia: “There’s GOT to be a Happy Burger around here somewhere!”

[norton]

"The warlords/dictators/corrupt juntas running his country’s economy won’t allow it. You got that right!

What's the latst on US ships and aid to Burma? Did they ever off load? Are they still there?

[Maceman]

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

[RU88]

When will we once and for all disassociate ourselves from the UN? Quite frankly there are very few world organizations that our a greater hindrance to freedom than they are. Why to we continue to pay them lip service? There not even to the point of being called useful idiots.

[norton]

"billions of dollars are being wasted on feeding obese people in the West "

We're doing the best we can Jacques - but it's not easy shoving these corn cobs into the gas tank while fat people are rioting all around us.

[STONEWALLS]

...Wake up Whitey!....we’re only 15% of the world’s population and a low birth rate means that number will only shrink...skinny folks world wide resent us....Obama wants them to like us..maybe he’ll send them a meal he enjoys....salmon/steamed broccoli/organic tea.....then maybe the skinny ones will forgive our whitness.

[LuxMaker]

This all gets back to a central tenant of corruption in all governments. Create a problem (or let a problem fester), to become the solution, to establish greater control.