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

[Micaylah]

Bear said...
>Providing the food is not the problem, getting it to the people who need it
>is.  Most of the places that need the food don't have the transportation
>network to deliver the food, have governments which deny access to the food
>for political reasons, have corrupt officials who sell the food for their
>profit, have bandits who steal the food, or a combination of all of the
>preceding.  Ethiopia over the past 20 years has been a case study for all of
>the problems in feeding other countries.  The worst thing is prior to the
>droughts of 1970 and the civil war in 1974, the country was able to feed its
>population.

Its extremely interesting what you say Bear, and also pretty tragic. But my
point still stands. I feel strongly that we should be cleaning up our own
backyards before lending the proverbial hand. And that is why I don't give
money to these endeavours. But I do contribute  here at home and work
sometimes in the soup kitchens and always put something in the box at the
grocery. I would hate to put my small monetary dollars to work in another
country and then walk around the corner and see hungry people living out of
boxes and kids being sent to school with no breakfast etc.

It may be jaded, pesimistic and hard hearted to say, but I also believe that
in the "whole picture" the strongest really do survive. Peoples come and go.
Fact of life. The End.

M.
Does this make me a cold hearted bitch?

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