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UN: Record 1 billion go hungry
AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/14/09 | Tom Malti and Ariel David -ap

Posted on 10/14/2009 4:28:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

NAIROBI, Kenya – Parents in some of Africa's poorest countries are cutting back on school, clothes and basic medical care just to give their children a meal once a day, experts say. Still, it is not enough.

A record 1 billion people worldwide are hungry and a new report says the number will increase if governments do not spend more on agriculture. According to the U.N. food agency, which issued the report, 30 countries now require emergency aid, including 20 in Africa.

The trend continues despite a goal set by world leaders nine years ago to cut the number of hungry people in half by 2015.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hunger; hungry; record; unitednations
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To: NormsRevenge

Their leaders should be hanged.


41 posted on 10/14/2009 5:49:09 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Angry about where our country is going with the current regime at the helm.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Cool!!!!!!!!!!!

Better them than me!!!!!!!!!

Now if the eco-nazi’s would let the water flow in central kalifornica, we could feed them.

Sorry, but the libs have spoken and you don’t get any. Besides, you cost to much for healthcare anyway.


42 posted on 10/14/2009 5:55:00 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Become a monthly donor or FR won't be here for you!)
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To: indylindy
That is why my Mom always told me that folks were starving in China when I didn’t eat my canned spinach.

To which I'm sure reply was, "Well them send this to them."

43 posted on 10/14/2009 5:55:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: NormsRevenge

minorities and women affected the most


44 posted on 10/14/2009 5:57:21 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

OK, so how much guilt and finger-pointing will the UN do now..oh wait, it’s Bush’s fault.


45 posted on 10/14/2009 5:57:52 PM PDT by max americana (i)
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To: NormsRevenge
Reminds me of "will Bush commit to ending hunger".

Hunger is a key motivating force behind human advancement.

I do some of my best work when I'm hungry. Hunger is a real force for change.

How about we end thirst too? And maybe sexual desire?

Then we'll be at one with the freaking cosmos perhaps?

Damn UN eastern religionists.
46 posted on 10/14/2009 10:53:22 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: NormsRevenge

Just to echo Sam Kinison, “Move where the food IS!! Ohh!!


47 posted on 10/14/2009 11:16:07 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: NormsRevenge

Someone call Bono.


48 posted on 10/15/2009 1:31:05 AM PDT by cranked
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To: NormsRevenge

Depopulation in the works.


49 posted on 10/15/2009 3:36:18 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: MaxMax

Let the Chinese do what they want with Africa. After all, they’re the new colonizers of the third-world black hole.


50 posted on 10/15/2009 3:43:18 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: mombi
Is it nothing to you?
Starving Children Eat Bugs
The Poor
Eating Mud Cookies to Survive!
Plenty of food — yet the poor are starving! 18,000 Kids Starve to Death Every Day!
51 posted on 10/15/2009 3:59:20 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: rfp1234

Ok, I couldn’t remember which country that was happening in.


52 posted on 10/15/2009 5:36:36 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: dfwgator
I think Sam Kinison had the solution....”MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!!”

You mean, you want them to come to the USA? Where there's so much surplus food, 66% of the population is overweight or obese?
53 posted on 10/15/2009 5:56:32 AM PDT by Cronos (Oh bummer -- screwing up America since Jan 2009 - and doing a damn fine job of it too!)
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To: Ouderkirk
If they want guns and ammo, we can talk, but no more “ humanitarian aid”, which inevitable gets diverted to the despots military and their private accounts in Zurich.

I agree.
54 posted on 10/15/2009 5:57:38 AM PDT by Cronos (Oh bummer -- screwing up America since Jan 2009 - and doing a damn fine job of it too!)
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To: myknowledge
That's right, I completely forgot about China's involvement in Africa.
We'll never hear much about it in the media.
55 posted on 10/15/2009 11:48:07 AM PDT by MaxMax (Obama can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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