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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Now what if Halliburton, Oil Companies, & Pharmaceuticals took THIS one on!

U.N.: Hunger Kills 6M Kids Yearly

ROME, Nov. 22, 2005
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Of the six million children who die annually from hunger and malnutrition many die from treatable diseases — a number roughly equal to the whole pre-school population of a large country such as Japan. (AP)


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"We want economies around the world to improve; that is really what's going to provide the long-term stable base upon which people are let out of poverty."

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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns


(AP) Hunger and malnutrition are killing nearly six million children a year, and more people are malnourished in sub-Saharan Africa this decade than in the 1990s, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.

Many of the children — the figure roughly equals the whole pre-school population of a large country such as Japan — die from diseases that are treatable, including diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria and measles, said the report by the Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
Comments:
It has always been a conundrum that thoes who have the most share the least, perhaps that is how one gathers so much.

Nice post!
 
Well, really, those kids wouldn't starve to death if their parents would just pull themselves up by their boot-straps and get decent jobs that will put food on the table. Why do we have to help those who would be happy to mooch off us?

(trying my best neo-con attitude...how did it work??)

This is a shame.
 
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