SC: OT Heifer project...wasRe: Subject: SC - Re: SC European foods - Real P

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Micaylah wrote:

> Sister Mary said..
> >>Does the phrase - "supply them with fish and they eat for a day, teach them to
> >>fish and they eat for life"  mean anything.  The US Welfare system is proof
> >>that handouts don't work either!!!  Food must be accompanied by education!!!
>
> Okay now that I have a name to a posting... :D
>
> Yes the phrase does mean alot to me. And I also agree with it, but the state
> of poverty and hunger of some of these countries goes beyond the Pale where
> hunger overrides the desire to be taught. Case in point, being the program
> recently cited that didn't work because they were eating their breeding
> animals. Some of these people can't, not won't,  see beyond the next meal.
> Rather than living paycheck to paycheck, these people live meal to meal.
> Sorta like fatten them up, get their brains functioning in a healthy body
> and then teach.
>
> Micaylah
>

My .02 and I'm outta this.  Why don't we feed them the extra we have?  Why don't we
pay our farmers to produce instead of paying them not to and end all this?  Damn
their governments.  Feed them so they don't have to look to the next meal, then
equip and teach them to feed themselves!

Brenna
(who has fought this same thought for years and will say no more)

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