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dArKeR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:46 PM Original message |
About half of Africa is starving |
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DuctapeFatwa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. It's not due to drought. |
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demsrule4life (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:51 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. How is that? |
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DuctapeFatwa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:54 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. World food production is more than enough to feed everybody |
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demsrule4life (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:58 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. I agree |
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DuctapeFatwa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 08:04 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. The US prefers "leaders" who can be counted on to put US business |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 09:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. but |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 10:48 PM Response to Reply #5 |
26. To play Devil's Advocate for a moment |
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kalian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. ... |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. "Free Trade" |
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cprise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 09:03 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Here is an excellent article: |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-03-04 12:19 AM Response to Reply #2 |
27. The young men with guns usually have enough food. It's the |
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ManneredChild (72 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. I'm curious too |
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mike1963 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. Drought and too many people. I do not mean this to sound racist, as it |
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ManneredChild (72 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. I sent $1000.00 to Oxfam around Christmas |
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thebaghwan (998 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 09:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
20. No, I am trying not to starve here after Bush got my wife and my job. |
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sadiesworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
7. Clearly, this calls for more birth control interference by Bushco. |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
11. didn't one country object to US 'franken food'? |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 10:43 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. I believe that was Zimbabwe |
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izzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
13. Sounds like the Empires left a mess. |
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MasonJar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
15. America is culpable. Our pollution travels to the African |
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ManneredChild (72 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 09:08 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. And that's why half are starving? |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 09:11 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. one of the reasons |
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shamanstar (326 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
19. atleast we can drive hummers |
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PartyPooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
21. And, the aids epidemic isn't helping either. |
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beanball (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
22. The fat Americans |
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beanball (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 09:59 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. that should say don't need. |
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Nevernose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-02-04 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
25. "There has never been a famine in a nation w/ a free press" |
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