They're Going To Solve Hunger?

[Chicklet]

In Iraq by taking it over? UHM, HELLO! Plenty of hungry mouths HERE.

 

[lobito]

shhhh, don't say that! We all know the U.S. Government doesn't acknowledge that stuff.

 

[bad kitty]

But everyone wants us to feed and take care of the world, surely you have realized that by now.

 

[Purrde Flower]

Thread number 5? 6? how many do you think we will top tonight?

 

[Thrillhouse]

I know how to solve hunger.


Eat something.
Duh.

 

[celiaKitten]

An interesting link reguarding poverty here in the United States.

Takes awhile to load for dial-up, but worth it, I assure you.

Poverty USA

 

[Spinaroonie]

In Iraq by taking it over? UHM, HELLO! Plenty of hungry mouths HERE.

U DONT GIT IT U HIPPY. TEH PEPLE OF IRACK HAV 2 ASK PERMISSION FROM SADDAM EVERY DAY IF THEY CAN EAT FOOD AND SOMETIEMS HE SAYS NO. WE MUST BOMB TEHM SO TAHT THEY CAN EAT>

 

[celiaKitten]

Spin .. everyday I you a little more.. lol

 

[SuprSalor]

But everyone wants us to feed and take care of the world, surely you have realized that by now.

Ahh, but the sad part is we could. I don't know the exact figures, but between the U.S. and Canada, We could produce enough food staples to feed the impoverished countries of the world. Look how much we pay farmers NOT to grow crops. Heck throw in Argentina's and Australia's production and you'd have enough to feed the world quite healthfully.

 

[bad kitty]

Ahh, but the sad part is we could. I don't know the exact figures, but between the U.S. and Canada, We could produce enough food staples to feed the impoverished countries of the world. Look how much we pay farmers NOT to grow crops. Heck throw in Argentina's and Australia's production and you'd have enough to feed the world quite healthfully.

I agree with ya. It is pathetically sad. I get so frustrated with all the people who want to adopt and they go to foreign countries to do it. We have several children here longing for a good home and a loving family. We as a country have many imperfections.

 

[celiaKitten]

I agree with ya. It is pathetically sad. I get so frustrated with all the people who want to adopt and they go to foreign countries to do it. We have several children here longing for a good home and a loving family. We as a country have many imperfections.

The red tape involved can take years to cut through. The expense can be overwhelming.

(My brother and his wife recently adopted out of country after researching. It was cheaper to fly to China and adopt)

Besides, people are people and kids are kids, no matter where they're from. They all deserve loving homes, no matter where they find them.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Spin .. everyday I you a little more.. lol

I <3 u 2.

 

[bad kitty]

The red tape involved can take years to cut through. The expense can be overwhelming.

(My brother and his wife recently adopted out of country after researching. It was cheaper to fly to China and adopt)

Besides, people are people and kids are kids, no matter where they're from. They all deserve loving homes, no matter where they find them.

I know it is cheaper and that is a problem that should be fixed.

I agree with your last statement as well, but don't cha think we should try to clean up our own yard before trying to clean someone elses? Ya gotta start somewhere...

 

[SuprSalor]

I agree with ya. It is pathetically sad. I get so frustrated with all the people who want to adopt and they go to foreign countries to do it. We have several children here longing for a good home and a loving family. We as a country have many imperfections.

Absolutly!!

 

[sufisaint]

The best answer to world hunger is birth-control or family planning...but to some it immediately becomes some silly "religious" question on the right and Eugenics on the left.

 

[celiaKitten]

I know it is cheaper and that is a problem that should be fixed.

I agree with your last statement as well, but don't cha think we should try to clean up our own yard before trying to clean someone elses? Ya gotta start somewhere...

Yes, it should be changed. Adoptive parents are very afraid in many instances. Remember the DeBoer family? They raised their little Jessica for years, and had her taken from them because the biological mother lied about the child's paternity. There are many nightmares like that. It's asking a lot of an adoptive parent - that they should live in fear that the child they adopt and love more than anything in the world could be taken from them.

In the meantime, adoptive couples in their late 30's don't particularly want to wait until possibly their 50's to adopt a child.

And, I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on that last point. When it comes to children - humanity in general, even - the entire world is our backyard. My adorable neice would likely be dead if it wasn't for foreign adoptions. She would have been left in the dumpster the orphanage found her in, left to die before she had a chance to live. Without the interest in these adoptions, many of those orphanages would not exist, and the female infant mortality rate would rise to an even higher horrific amount.