Hunger in Haiti and around globe increasing rapidly »
Posted By Beau7890 5 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsHunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti's presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and police. Hunger sent the country's prime minister packing. The food crisis not only is being felt among the poor, but also is eroding the gains of the working and middle classes, sowing volatile levels of discon
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PsychoHosebeast5 months, 3 weeks ago
If they're strong enough to get up.
It occurs to me that people were laughing at Ted Turner's comments last week...
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libsRfunny5 months, 3 weeks ago
Quit producing corn-based ethanol and expanding domestic drilling would be two good places to start. But, as you might have noticed, the problem is world-wide. So much for U.S. oil companies causing all the trouble.
Ted Turner is a bonehead. You might have noticed, "climate change" wasn't listed among causes in the story, and starvation in Haiti hardly is new.
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Obaku5 months, 3 weeks ago
Check out Australian rice production, and then tell me climate change isn't an issue.
Ethanol from corn has never been a very good idea, except on a local basis, you can't add transportation costs to it, you have to have a use for the distillers grain that doesn't require drying or much transportation....
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THOMNH625 months, 3 weeks ago
think Somalia , most of h these countries are ruled by war lords who murder the opposition. Anyone standing in their way they simply eliminate. We can send all the food in the world and they will steel it, sell it and make more war. Maybe we should assist these countries with our military like Darfur. But wait that would be nation building, gues we'll just let them starve
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