Today in the New York Times:
In the sprawling slum of Haiti’s Cité Soleil, Placide Simone, 29, offered one of her five offspring to a stranger. “Take one,” she said, cradling a listless baby and motioning toward four rail-thin toddlers, none of whom had eaten that day. “You pick. Just feed them.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/world/americas/18food.html
World hunger is getting worse — much worse — and the world needs to do something, including the U.S., or face dire consequences. Food should not be channeled into bio-fuels when it creates scarcity for those in need, driving the price out of reach for the poor and downtrodden.
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