New York Times
April 10, 2008
This article is about the food crisis around the world. Many families in other nations spend more than half of their income just to eat. With the price of imported food rising, it is getting harder and harder for these people to stay alive. There are many factors that affect the price of goods, not just the value of them. For example: it takes an input of money for feed and supplements to be fed to cows so they can eat and be slaughtered for meat. Since the price of their feed is going up, the price of their meat goes up, and it’s an endless cycle from there. The author thinks that the United States and other wealthy countries need to step up and take some action for these people who can’t afford food. He thinks we should push for more renewable fuels and find cheaper ways of doing what we are already doing to solve this huge problem.
This is a very well researched article. The author knew a lot of facts and statistics about the malnutrition rates and the percentage that families spend on food in different countries. It provided me with information I didn’t know and he really kept my attention and made me feel for these starving countries.
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Starvation is terrible and it's happening all over the world. I do think we should be helping but I believe much of the money we send is misused. Yes, food is wonderful but it's only a temporary solution. I believe a real solution would be to invest in irrigation, farming tools, and teach villages how to farm and sustain themselves.
I agree with Karl. For the short term food should be given to these countries for their people; however, the majority of money spent should be on education to teach these people the current food innovations. This article is very well written and researched. I wish he would have included some different ways to solve the problem besides just easily giving the countries money for food.
I too agree with Karl and Molly. I read an article about this same issue a few months ago, and the author also proposed that educating the people and providing the tools they need in order to provide their own food is the best way to help curb world starvation. While sending over food is great for a short term solution, starvation will resume once the food runs out. The article appears to be very well researched and beneficial to read.
These tyoes of articles always break my heart. This was very effective for the writer. He definetly got his point across. I just don't like hearing or reading about these things unless I can reach into my ag and actually hand somebody some food. If you aren't going to offer me a way to help, then don't tell me about it.
My economics teacher was telling the class that in years to come we are going to have to worry about world hunger. I just thought he was just making up stuff like he usually does, but I guess it can actually happen. That is very scary to think that we won't have enough food.
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