CARE blunts food as policy weapon
One of the largest international aid organizations in the world turned the food aid industry on its head recently by declaring that they will turn down 46 million dollars in food subsidies from the U.S. government.The United States budgets 2 billion dollars a year in food aid, which buys U.S. crops to feed populations facing starvation amidst crisis or those that endure chronic hunger.
But the U.S.-based CARE International has forfeited its substantial slice of the food aid pie that is the U.S. “Food for Peace” program, claiming that the way the U.S. government distributes food hurts small poor farmers in the very communities and countries the program is supposed to help.
CARE has been one of the largest suppliers of food aid around the world for the past 50 years so its shift in policy could have a dramatic effect on the food aid industry.
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frank1569 August 24th, 2007 8:47 pmI have to agree with Frank.
“The intention behind this film [“The 11th Hour”] was to be a massive conversation starter that would lead to action on a broad societal level.”
Not to be a bubble burster, but if a “massive conversation” about the catastrophically mutating climate hasn’t started at this point for God’s sake after thirty years of yelling and screaming, not to mention the hard evidence in front of everyone’s faces every day, then maybe it’s time to forget trying to convince those who refuse to accept their house is on fire in spite of the flames melting their skin and start focusing on surviving the projected worst case scenario. Especially since, so far, every projected worst case scenario has been way off. The bad way off.
Altogether, the responses to the article are more telling than the article itself, a phenomenon that seems to be growing on the Internet leftie sites. The crowd is angrier and sharper than its self-annointed spokespersons. Not a good sign for the spokespersons, certainly.
But it is an even worse sign for the ones being complained about.
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