Global food riots
Deroy Murdock/National Review Posted 19 weeks agoTo draw a phrase from the late, great William F. Buckley Jr.’s words as he founded National Review, someone must stand athwart the federal ethanol program yelling, “Stop!” The emergency brake should be pulled — NOW — before ethanol wreaks further havoc.
Poor Haitians rioted last week outside Port-au-Prince’s presidential palace, forcing Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis’s April 12 ouster. Haitians are sick and tired of food prices that are 40 percent higher than last summer’s. Some have resorted to eating cookies made of salt, vegetable oil, and dirt. That’s right: Dirt cookies.
Developing-world denizens are taking it to the streets with growling stomachs. In Bob Marley’s words, “A hungry man is an angry man.”
Thoughts
EATING DIRT
Submitted on April 25th, 2008 by janmbThe billions we spent on IRAQ could have done a lot of good in the world---
OH WELL -- profiteering was more important.
The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children in Haiti as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where a woman like Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.
"When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day," Charlene said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking even thinner than the slim 6 pounds 3 ounces he weighed at birth.
Though she likes their buttery, salty taste, Charlene said the cookies also give her stomach pains. "When I nurse, the baby sometimes seems colicky too," she said.
GOV/subs. HAVE "HUNGERED"peopleTOO-LONG
Submitted on April 24th, 2008 by AnonymousMy Parents (83 & 85)tell me about the Goverment Subdies that FORCED FARMERS to KILL_OFF pigs/cows/and the like; pour gallons of MILK in DITCHES all to KEEP THE PRICES UP!
STUPID-STUPID-STUPID Just Like TODAY !
Excess food and other materials allow for those WITHOUT to SURVIVE! Democratic-Republican-Independant SHOULD NEVER ALLOW any HUMANBEING GO HUNGRY. Alturnitive Measures REGULATION OF PRICE CONTROLS-WAR BUCKS or PROFITS Should be against the LAWS of HUMANITY (watchout Exonn and your counterparts - HalliBURDON the WORLD your RIGHT THERE With-em-all
FEED the WORLD Just HOW MUCH DO WE AS A NATION "THROW-AWAY" Does anybody KNOW? ALL COMENTS WELCOME
ethanol
Submitted on April 24th, 2008 by AnonymousDo we feed our cars or ourselves or can we do both?!?Give people a chance to farm more through govt. help/grants