$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')ising prices for food have led the United Nations programme fighting famine in Africa and other regions to warn that it can no longer afford to feed the 90m people it has helped for each of the past five years on its budget.
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UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world
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UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world
by seldom_seen » Sun 15 Jul 2007, 21:55:00
I found the last sentence particularly apropos to the new world we are entering:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'â')€śWe are no longer in a surplus world.”
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Re: UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world
by Roccland » Sun 15 Jul 2007, 22:09:57
Could be a very optimistic viewpoint...90 Million VS 5 Billion...
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Re: UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world
by TheTurtle » Sun 15 Jul 2007, 22:12:10
It was bound to happen. 
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')iofuel demand is soaking up grain production as is rising consumption in emerging countries for animal feed.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')iofuel demand is soaking up grain production as is rising consumption in emerging countries for animal feed.
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.” (Ted Perry)
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Re: UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world
by dukey » Sun 15 Jul 2007, 22:24:10
this is GOOD news for the UN because they have a unit which specifically deals with population control/reduction.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it."
Oceanographer Jaques Cousteau
Published in the Courier, a publication of
the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it."
Oceanographer Jaques Cousteau
Published in the Courier, a publication of
the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Most of [Ted Turner's first donation to the United Nations Foundation of] $22 million went to programs that seek to stall population growth...."
-The Baltimore Sun, July 7, 1998
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Reproductive health care in the context of primary health care should ... include ... abortion...."
-Report of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 1994
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')obel winner supported biological warfare as form of population control
Third World de-population has been U.S. strategic policy since '74
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he report suggested furthering the camouflage by mandating that countries accepting aid from the UN or the banks form their own population-control ministries.
