Millions more starving' by 2015

[acmejack]

From the BBC, just another war we seem to be losing.

"The world will have 100 million extra hungry people by 2015, say scientists.

Despite great improvements in food availability in the 1960s and 1970s, these trends are reversing in many developing countries, they say.

The United Nations' goal of halving hunger by 2015 looks unattainable without new technologies and greater financial investment, they add.

Ten pre-school children die every minute from malnutrition and this number has not changed since the early 1980s despite global promises."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/4724282.stm

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. WTF???

"For instance, east Kenya last year faced a famine. In the west of the country there was an excess of corn, but this was shipped to Europe because neither the means nor the money was available to get the corn to those starving in the east."

They can find the capability to ship corn thousands of miles, but not hundreds of miles.

For the cost of a single fighter jet, they could have bought a fleet of trucks to transport the food.

Sick.