Hunger crisis and what you can do (pass it on)
The part that made me cry was this:
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.”
I think it’s only going to get worse. I was going to write about the possibility that corn would be rationed this year, and how much that will screw with our food prices (and availability) but the article talking about the rationing got taken down.
Just consider this: corn is heavily subsidized, and in most processed food. What do you think will happen when the main ingredient in most processed crap food is suddenly taken from the free market? Especially considering the fact that this “junk food” has been effectively lowering in price — so that sometimes that’s all the poorer people can afford.
Suddenly the “food” that the poor are eating is either no longer available or is made with more expensive ingredients. I think anything we can do, anything at all, to soften the blow of that should be done.
Right now it’s just the Haitians that need to eat dirt. It’s going the wrong way: we need to get it to be less people that eat dirt, not more.
