On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:49:29 GMT, "Gil Faver" > wrote:

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>>
>> We already have the food grown though, and there are
>> no worries about whether there will be a good crop, or what
>> it's doing to the environment, or people stealing it, or
>> destroying it out of hatred, or anything like that.
>
>your new food supply would have no effect whatsoever on the environment? It
>will be immune to theft? It would be immune to destruction out of hatred?
>or anything like that?

There will always be such worries, but the chances of them
happening vary in different parts of the world.

>if that is true, nobody would want to eat it inthe first place!
>
>
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>
>>>The
>>>problem is that there are limits to the costs we are willing to bear
>>>on their behalf. I'm not sure your suggestion is a particularly cost-
>>>effective way of helping people.
>
>
>true. nobody is strving due to a lack of food on this planet. People are
>starving due to politics and corruption.
>
>>
>>>I think you'd find you could provide
>>>people with better nutrition for the same or less money if you just
>>>gave them some economic assistance so that they could buy their own
>>>food,
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>you would do better by ending the corruption, and allowing them to grow
>their own food, become eductated, and pull themselves up,

Part of the idea would be to prevent them from starving before
that happens.

>rahter than
>throwing even more money, however well intentioned, down the rat hole.