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- Puntas13, on 11/18/2008, -25/+119Can't feed them, Don't breed them.
- 610dean, on 11/18/2008, -20/+87Some people in industrialized countries are still worrying about their football team, perfect smiles, which shoes to buy... In reality the whole world could face these realities soon if we don't control the human population and start reversing our damage to the planet immediately.
- RonADiSH, on 11/18/2008, -15/+80i dont want to sound like a dick,
but if you cant afford food - dont make children. - WraTH017, on 11/18/2008, -8/+43That must be a tough choice.... Bur not as tough as birth control, apparently.
- ChrisOrr, on 11/18/2008, -16/+47Amount of money sent to Israel each day= 6-8 Million dollars
With that money each person in a family of six could each have 13,000 a year for 100 years
We Americans are so caring. - tonaros, on 11/18/2008, -7/+37Maybe it's just me, but if I lived in a country with problems like this, I wouldn't have children. Just a thought.
- chickenloco, on 11/18/2008, -12/+40Agree.
This is an extremely sad situation, but people are having kids even when they know they won't be able to feed them, and that is not acceptable. And it is not America's responsibility to use taxpayer money for foreign aid. That is what charities are for. - kismetropolis, on 11/18/2008, -4/+30Heartbreaking. No other word for a condition in which a mother must decide which children will eat and which will starve.
- kingmanic, on 11/18/2008, -4/+27Haiti isn't a wretched place because of over industrialization. It's a hell hole because the leaders in that country are unable to industrialize. From a generations under a paranoid psychotic dictator (François Duvalier) to more recent civil unrest.
Control of human populations have 2 course.
1- let them starve, die of disease, or die from violence.
2- make them rich and the wealth will control their population in 2 or 3 generations.
Not much else you can do. Controlling the already declining western population does little as it is already at neutral or negative growth rates across the board. The poor nations would live within the carrying capacity of their country except westerners have flooded poor nations with politicized food aid, pushing the population past the carrying capacity and leading to lower carrying capacity as the extra mouths destroy the farmland. As odd as it seems, providing food aid will do more long term damage then long term good in almost every circumstance. - Infinitas, on 11/18/2008, -16/+39What I want to know is why the hell are they still god damn *****?!?!?! Stop bending over, put your legs down, stop *****! If you have 3 kids who are barely surving, getting your freak on should be very very low on your list of priorities. If there isn't any food to go around, how are the children surviving pregnancy?
What? they aren't willfully *****? there is nationwide rape-a-thon going on? what's it the chupa-thingy impregnating these women?
Instead of food, it seems you almost have to hand out condoms.
I might get dugg down, I feel bad for them, I wish there was something I could do but the bureaucracy of the process keeps my dollars instead in the pockets of corrupt officials than these people suffering. - bart5986, on 11/18/2008, -8/+30Why would they have a baby if they know they can't feed them? Unless there's a good reason then it really makes me not care about this article.
- MelekTawus, on 11/18/2008, -7/+29In a lot of the world, women don't have much choice when it comes to sex. If you are a poor woman in a third-world country, there's not much you can do to avoid being raped aside from consenting to the least distasteful man around and hope he protects you from the others. We used to have government funded programs to provide free birth control in countries like this, but they have been crippled by the Religious Right.
- Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 11/18/2008, -2/+23Consider the fact that the use of birth control is controlled by governments and protested by religious zealots. Then consider the fact that not everyone, especially poor countries, has access to birth control. Even if they did, do you think they would have the money for birth control if they can't afford food?
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -3/+24I ate today.
- Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -3/+24You don't sound like a dick. Responsible parents throughout the animal kingdom build a nest first then fill that nest after the environment for that child is secure. For some reasons human beings have trouble with this concept.
- nthitz, on 11/18/2008, -0/+20If they don't have food, what makes you think they have condoms?
- dezweber, on 11/18/2008, -7/+27Devastating.
- kingmanic, on 11/18/2008, -2/+20Food Aid doesn't help poor nations. Food Aid undermines local agriculture (can't beat the price of free) and pushes the population past the local carrying capacity leading to mass famines when the food aid ends. Monetary Aid comes with similar strings and unless you have honest leadership and a stable country it goes directly into the pockets of the leaders. That 6-8 million ought to go to Americans. It'll do very little anywhere else. Even Israel makes better use of it then Haiti or almost any poverty stricken nation would.
- viker7, on 03/30/2009, -6/+24Amount of money spent in Iraq each day ~$400 Million. Aid to Israel (assuming $8 million/day) is merely 2% of that. Why don't you look at the bigger issues?
Source: http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/ ... - Vikesrock, on 11/18/2008, -1/+18http://www.fmsc.org/
$0.17 a meal for people just like this. 94% of all donations go directly towards feeding hungry families in countries like Haiti, Liberia, Nicaragua, and many more. - inactive, on 11/19/2008, -3/+19Besides having no access to contraception, these people have no money, no leasures, no food, nothing. AND you want them to stop *****? Oh, it seems you also want them to die, "to save them".
Can you honestly picture yourself in their place? Honestly. - rootnik, on 11/18/2008, -4/+20"I always knew you were the favorite! Damn."
- flashboy131, on 11/18/2008, -1/+16Well we just handed over 700 billions dollars to help banks, so millions seems like nothing.
- kingmanic, on 11/18/2008, -5/+19Times aren't always tough. You kids are with you for 14 or more years, times change a lot in 14 years.
- Rikkochet, on 11/19/2008, -1/+15Should the day come when your fortunes change and everything you have come crashing down around you, and you continue to say that and not expect a handout, then I can totally respect that position.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -6/+19Stop breeding then. 'Gee wiz honey, all we have to eat is dirt and rocks and filthy water...lets have lots of kids'.
Lameness squared. - kingmanic, on 11/18/2008, -4/+17PS: Biology > Ideology
It's one thing to say "Can't feed them, Don't breed them." But how on earth will you convince a poor nation of that? Almost every developing country has a culture which believes more children = more wealth. Even in the direst circumstance they have more kids as a adaptation to poor conditions because you dont' know when one or more will die. In that case having more means you stand a greater chance that one will live.
Don't worry though, if they get poor enough they won't have the strength to breed. - Tzen, on 11/19/2008, -3/+15That should be any country. If you're on welfare, stop having kids until you can afford to take cares of them.
- Rikkochet, on 11/19/2008, -0/+12That's not how the developing world works.
They need to have children so someone can support them in their old age.
If they have one child and it dies before them, they are completely ***** and will starve to death.
Have 2 just in case one dies.
Mortality is high.. Have 3 just in case.
4 is safer...
That's their logic, and it's what they need to do to survive. We can't relate. Don't try to. - wishninja, on 11/19/2008, -0/+11not blaming them he was just saying Americans could put their foreign aid to better use. America would like to have it's sovereignty back so we can do greater things in the world.
- moodley, on 11/18/2008, -2/+12That's terrible
- slingr, on 11/19/2008, -4/+14lack of education and lack of contraception don't really give them much choice
- MelekTawus, on 11/18/2008, -2/+11Yeah, all these women need to just go get some free condoms at the local Planned Parenthood, and if they get pregnant go get a free abortion. They can then report the rapists to their friendly local police department who will promptly arrest the men and protect other women from unwanted pregnancy, and stop by the WIC office to get free peanut butter and milk for their kids.
- wave789, on 11/18/2008, -8/+17No couple on earth should be allowed to have more than two kids, simultaneous pregnancies excepted.
I just solved world hunger. Is this really so ***** difficult? - stklaw, on 11/19/2008, -2/+10A population with high death rates can only sustain itself by having high birth rates.
By your ideology, countries like Niger or Sierra Leone disappeared ages ago.
Either you know nothing about demographics or you think that developing nations should just die. - Troy64, on 11/19/2008, -0/+8Or missions to Haiti. We had a Priest at church three months collecting money for Haiti. He and other missionaries go there several times a year building houses and bringing food.
- Mpwns, on 11/19/2008, -0/+8if only the mother of this link had the money to buy a pc and get an isp to see all this sound advice.
- Ghoztt, on 11/18/2008, -2/+9First thing we must do to improve quality of life on this world is start teaching world-wide, ways of growing vegetables, trees and various foods that only need compost, soil, water and light.
It would be nice if countries start investing in desalinization for near free water and various green energies like solar, wind and tidal forces. - Altmnop, on 11/19/2008, -1/+8I hope you're kidding when you suggest a massacre. As much as the starvation is a product of their making, that's just ***** inhumane.
- 7m7uf, on 11/18/2008, -0/+7The U.S. stopped some funding for condoms in Africa. There is rape and mis-information out there - remember when raping children cured aids? and who's to say their religion prevents use of condoms? Abortions?
- selrahc, on 11/18/2008, -0/+7People like having sex.
- AgentMull, on 11/18/2008, -8/+15Choosy moms choose death.
- osko2052, on 11/19/2008, -1/+8Your point is moot. How many soup kitchens and homeless shelters are run by churches all over the country?
- legoalert33, on 11/18/2008, -9/+16Being a member of the industrialized country I just don't give a ***** what happens to people.
I'm an *****. - kmb1794, on 11/19/2008, -0/+6What's that? I can't hear you. Wait until I'm done chewing.
- jessehadden, on 11/19/2008, -1/+7You're being dugg-up for such populist ignorance. Human beings are animals, with basic drives. Maslow's hierarchy of needs acknowledges, without judgment, that sex is a basic human need -- like hunger.
Why are we spending billions to throw bibles at these people, when some condoms & sex ed would do the trick much better?
And yes, in most impoverished places, there is for all intents and purposes a "rape-a-thon" taking place. Your callous insensitivity to this cruel reality is perhaps the most offensive aspect of your ignorant posting. - duihomer, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6I'm eating now... and not stopping even after reading this article.
- Letmix, on 11/19/2008, -0/+6And I guess you think they are easily obtainable in a 3rd-world country. I doubt it. Condoms are the cheapest form of control other than abstaining. And I wouldn't guess most women have that choice there.
- borez, on 11/18/2008, -11/+17That makes me sick, no mother should EVER have to make choices like that.
...And we're bailing out fumbling idiot ***** bankers. Disgusting. - Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -0/+6There are cases where animals will not mate if conditions are not right before doing so.
The point is that parents need to be responsible BEFORE they bring a child into the world. I'm not so naive to think that abstinence is adequate to prevent a pregnancy from ever happening. If a woman does gets pregnant accidentally despite birth control efforts, then she should get an abortion while it's still just a lump of dividing cells and not a fully formed starving child. Bringing a child into an environment where the parents can not support them is irresponsible. -
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