Time for a calculation.
1. The newspaper today states one minute of war in Iraq costs US$380,000. A calculation made by
Joseph Stiglitz, a US Nobelprize winning economist. That is almost double the cost of the war in Vietnam.
2. According to
WFP, the UN’s food aid organisation, it costs US$0.19 to feed a child for a day. Nineteen cents. 20,000 children die of hunger every day. The time it took you to read this post, already 15 died.
3. Taking those two figures together, one minute of war in Iraq would feed 2,000,000 children for a day.
One day of war in Iraq would feed 8,000,000 children for a year.
4. There are 800 million hungry in the world. Three-four months of war in Iraq would feed all hungry in the world.
Three-four months of war, we have done before. Many times. But we have never fed all the hungry in the world.
A really shocking story. Bush is wasting a huge amount of money, around half the world is hungry. This opens everyone’s eyes who are seeing this. Don’t worry about how you look tonight. You think it’s a big problem? Just walk the streets of the world. Found it HERE
by Emma Hill
03 Jul 2010 at 06:24
Food Aids are badly needed by third world countries like in Africa in Asia.:-~
by William Roberts
19 Jul 2010 at 15:13
food aids are badly needed by third world countries and we really need to give something to the poor.,~”