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[–] Mellestalfph [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I put it in just in case people wanted to know. Americans' diet would only remove ~1 in 600 starving people. We need to focus on growing things there to put any meaningful dent in Africa's nutritional problems, except it's pretty much desert over there.

Also, about 90-95% of starving people are in third-world countries. There may be a handful of starving people in your town (depending on it's size). If eating way too much food is a problem, then shouldn't eating way too little food also be a problem. Food for thought.

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[–] Sanji 1 point 4 points (+5|-1) ago 

Or we could just cut 100% of charity to Africa and let them figure it out or vanish.

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[–] LawyersPlayDota 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

fuck yes this.

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[–] SupremeStomachRolls 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Absolutely. It sounds cruel on the surface, but if we stopped sending poor, destitute, starving African children free shoes and food, then they would have to go and grow their own food and make their own shoes. This would force them to make their own business and their own support systems, which would make them no longer starving or destitute (because if they need a thing? Well, they can make that thing. No problem.) If they did it themselves, they could tailor their own industries to their own needs that us "caring" westerners don't know about.

If we helping them, then it would be worth it to them to start making their own stuff. If they start making their own stuff, they don't need help anymore.

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[–] LazarusLong 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

In the long run this is the most charitable thing we could do, same with the middle east.

Just stop fucking with them.

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[–] LawyersPlayDota 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

alternatively, we can stop sending them food and nature will get rid of starving people for us without us encouraging them to reproduce without limit.

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[–] pm_me_or 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The mayonnaise I don't eat doesn't magically pop in a random Subsaharian Africa village.

It doesn't work like this. Africa has largely enough land to feed itself, like it almost did in the past with SA and Rhodesia. The solution to feed the world is not for us to eat less and send food/money to those who starve (it has already been tried and never worked), the solution is for starving people to breed less and start working their land efficiently.