Why Isn't This Front Page News?

[sintax]

30,000 children die evry day from hunger.

Does lack of awareness perpetuate hunger?

Why are people hungry?

Is there enough food in your community?

[underpants]

1. Today is World Population Day

http://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=93&Language=1

11 July 2002

For the past 13 years, countries around the world have been observing World Population Day on 11 July to raise public awareness and draw policy makers' attention to population issues such as poverty, reproductive health, education, and HIV/AIDS.

[southernleftylady]

2. Because a blonde hair child is missing, or jennifer fainted, or brad pitt

had an affair.. those IMPORTANT stories are taking up the front page

[seemslikeadream]

3. Let them eat cake

[OneBlueSky]

4. if Americans want to know "why they hate us," look here . . .

it's our consumption of WAY more than our fair share of the Earth's resources at the expense of dying babies in Africa . . . and the fact that we just don't seem to care . . .

we live in an abundant Universe, with more than enough for every man, woman, and child to have food, shelter, housing, health care, education and, for adults, employment . . . IF it were distributed a little more equitably . . . and IF countries like the US didn't pig out at others' expense . . .

it's not our freedoms they hate . . . it's how we misuse them . . .

[sintax]

5. Yep

yep and yep.

Poverty is not the problem as is the cant in the liberal discourse it is wealth and its accompanying diseases ,of which hunger is one, which is the problem.

When we say "wealth" it is often mistaken to be a Bill Gatesian type of thing when in fact it is the 'average american' or 'brit' who are in this corpulent category as well.