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Playing God - The Challenge of Deciding Who to Feed
- Mz 16y agoIt is, of course, heart-wrenching to read something like this. And certainly in cases of crisis (flood, hurricane, etc), I think it is the correct thing to do to ship in food. But in many cases, I really am ambivalent about it. "Diet for a Small Planet" made the point that hunger was rooted mostly in political issues and trying to give food to people often worsened the problem. (Someone here once spoke of some US company providing just enough free baby formula in some third world country for mother's milk to dry up and many babies starving as a result because the parents couldn't afford to buy the formula after the free supply ran out.) I don't know what The Answer is. But I think fixing root causes of such problems is where more of the focus should be. "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime."