"modom (palindrome guy)" wrote:
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> "The U.S. Government is the world’s largest international food donor,
> spending since 2002 an average of $2 billion per year on food aid that
> benefits more than 65 countries, most of them in Africa. For all this
> largesse, U.S. food aid barely makes a dent in the problem; it affects
> an estimated 11 percent of the planet’s chronically hungry.

Yep, and this point to the issue that all the religious nuts hate -
population control. The fact is that all our continuing food aid (other
than that which is sent after a short event) is nothing more than an
enabler for population growth beyond what an area can support. The same
applies to our medical aid in such cases, all we do is create a larger
and larger problem. Prior to the advent of all this feel good foreign
aid (not just from the US), the population in a given area was held in
balance by the natural forces of what the area could sustain.