Da Silva hailed for slashing hunger

[Judi Lynn]

Da Silva hailed for slashing hunger
BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
Update 10 hours and 16 minutes ago

ROME, Nov 16 - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accepted an award Monday for his efforts to combat hunger on the sidelines of a UN summit on food security.

"The Brazilian experience and that of other countries shows that the fight against this problem requires above all political will and determination," Lula said as the anti-poverty group ActionAid honoured him for "successfully reducing hunger in Brazil."

Accepting the award at the Rome headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Lula criticised the indifference of the international community to the plight of the hungry.

"Many seem to have lost the capacity for indignation over such suffering," he said, calling hunger "the worst weapon of mass destruction on the planet."

"Millions and millions of dollars are being wasted on saving failed banks," he added. "With less than half of these sums we would have made it possible to wipe out hunder in the world."

ActionAid's research found that Brazil ranked first among 30 developing countries, the group said, adding that Lula has reduced child malnutrition by 73 percent and child deaths by 45 percent since assuming office in 2003.

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[Braulio]

1. Lula is a genius

Not only has he reduced hunger in Brazil, did you notice they have the most efficient and by far the largest biofuels industry in the world? They have managed to feed the poor, increased their food exports, AND are also the greenest fuel users on planet earth. Maybe Fidel Castro ought to shut up about biofuels and stick to thinking about his missing bowels, rather than killing the Cuban biofuels industry the way he did?