pearl wrote:
"Rudy Canoza" wrote in message oups.com...

the Scented Nectar wrote:

..

She's right about what she
posted and you know it.

She's completely wrong. She completely bollixes up the entire issue of
world hunger. She knows nothing about it, nor does anyone else who
thinks it's a production issue.


For this crosspost, from yesterday:

"Scented Nectar" wrote in message ...

"Rudy Canoza" wrote in message
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Scented Nectar wrote:


"Rudy Canoza" wrote in message
hlink.net...


pearl wrote:


Scented, you asked for this info;

'Twenty percent of the corn grown in the U.S. is eaten by people.
Eighty percent of the corn and 95% of the oats grown in the U.S.
is eaten by livestock. The percentage of protein wasted by cycling
grain through livestock is calculated by experts as 90%.

It's not 'wasted', any more than the extra raw
materials and capital and labor that go into making a
Mercedes-Benz S-500 versus a small Kia are 'wasted'.
People want meat, and it requires resources to produce
the meat. The use of the resources in that way is not
'waste'.

This idea that the resources are 'wasted' is a
wrong-headed and economics-illiterate way of looking at
the world.


Tell that to the hungry people in
the world,

They would be hungry EVEN IF all North Americans and
Europeans ate a strictly vegetarian diet. Their hunger
has ****-all to do with our resource allocation.
They're hungry because THEIR economies are ****ed up,
and their countries are run by murderers.


Hunger and Food Insecurity Reach Chronic Highs [November 2004]
..
In 2003 the number of American households experiencing hunger rose
26% over comparable 1999 data, according to a newly released U.S.
Department of Agriculture report, Household Food Security in the
United States, 2003.

Load of ****, from a non-stop ****-spewer. Poor people
will always have problems.