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Topic Started: Aug 5 2015, 05:55 AM (322 Views)
Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
Lots of interesting stuff on this website. A great time waster!!

http://www.worldometers.info/
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Catseye
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7,357,862,573 Current World Population

793,338,249 Undernourished people in the world (10.78%)

1,612,065,600 Overweight people in the world (Just under 22%)


Hmmm . . . Implications? If, what, 10%* of tubbos ate some lesser percentage of calories every day, and if those "saved" calories could be gotten to the undernourished, then we'd solve world hunger?

A better idea: Do something about the criminal amounts of food that are dumpstered every day from supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, etc. With the above numbers I bet that alone would make a big dent.

*Math peeps, feel free to chime in here. :confused:
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Luke's Dad
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It doesn't completely work that way, especially when considering transport costs, spoilage, etc...
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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Catseye
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No, you're right. It's probably not possible to answer the question put that way.

I looked at this further. The countries designated as having 35% or higher undernourishment -- defined as not able to acquire enough food to meet the daily minimum dietary energy requirements, over a period of one year -- are, in addition to a few countries in Africa, Haiti and North Korea. The Koreas are a sad stark sight; South Korea is designated as having less than five percent undernourishment . . .

China is 5 to 14.9%; interesting.

When you look at the map -- http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/ -- you can see that the much of the world's people have enough or mostly enough to eat. What are we to think about this? Is it accurate to even think in terms of 'world' hunger? Why are food distribution programs not more successful?

I wish I knew more about the politics of some of these countries. Why for example is Honduras, with moderately low undernourishment, sandwiched between El Salvandor and Nicaragua, with moderately high? How is that even possible logistically?

And so on.
"How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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Aqua Letifer
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Aug 5 2015, 11:13 AM
When you look at the map -- http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/ -- you can see that the much of the world's people have enough or mostly enough to eat. What are we to think about this? Is it accurate to even think in terms of 'world' hunger?
I think it is, because there's starvation going on everywhere, even in the U.S. Sure, it's not a pressing issue, but people are without food here, in England, in Canada and everywhere else. It's just that some countries have it worse off, others better.

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Why are food distribution programs not more successful?


Depends on the country. In the case of North Korea, it's because the government there is working to starve its own people.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Steve Miller
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Aug 5 2015, 11:13 AM
Why are food distribution programs not more successful?
The answer is "politics" in nearly all cases.
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Copper
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If Mr. Obama would stop goofing around and fix the immigration system we could bring all the hungry here.

Feed them, give them jobs and collect their taxes so they could pay for my social security.

He'd rather score a few lousy points in the current news cycle than do any work.

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Aqua Letifer
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Yeah that's not hyberbolic at all.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Aug 5 2015, 01:04 PM
If Mr. Obama would stop goofing around and fix the immigration system we could bring all the hungry here.

Feed them, give them jobs and collect their taxes so they could pay for my social security.

He'd rather score a few lousy points in the current news cycle than do any work.



Copper, I'm never sure if you're being satirical or straight. If the former, I congratulate you on great subtlety and wit. If the latter, that's, um, awesome also, in its own way . . .

:leaving:
"How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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