while playing with my calculator i figured out how to solve world hunger in several different ways: 1) beef, 2) corn, and 3) nuts
1) buy cows and bulls. instead of slaughtering a whole animal, just cut hunks out of several for a meal. the flesh will regenerate while you use other beef for meals
2) and 3) eat whole corn and nuts. shit it out. wash it off. enjoy!
World Hunger solved!
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Horatio Felacio
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World Hunger solved!
Yo HO!! Just got me a code red and some funyons big dawg!!! SHIT YEAH! - Ray, excited about his breakfast
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captain static
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On a serious note, spirulina aquaculture produces as much edible protein in one acre of ponds as produced by 200 acres of cattle in pasture. There is also enough spirulina that grows naturally in Africa to feed millions of people but harvest has been blocked by governments who would rather see masses starve from famine.
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That's sickening. I volunteered at Harvest of Hope a month or so ago, and it was amazing the amount of apples we gleaned that would have gone bad... I think we counted ~160 bags, each bag holding around 150-200 apples. There's more than enough food in the world to feed everyone, it's just a matter of really shitty distribution, and a lot of wastefulness.
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It's worth pointing out a new barrier to feeding people. In the developed world, particularly in the US, big agri-corporations are rushing to patent any plant they can. (of course, at the same time, they are lobbying governments to change the laws to let them patent even more).
"So what?" you ask - good question. In the past (read: since the birth of agriculture) farmers raise a crop, eat most of it, and re-plant part of it for the next year. Nice and simple. Here's the problem - when you (as a farmer) get some Starlink corn, you haven't 'bought' the corn any more than you can 'buy' a copy of Windows - you've 'licensed' the corn and the license says that you can't replant what you've grown. That's fine for American farmers, because they operate in our world of lawers and banks and such. But for third world farmers, this type of arrangement is nuts.
Right now two things are happening. Third world governments aren't stupid (sometimes). They are resisting the practice of shipping grain into their countries that may contain patent-encumbered products. They know that some of the patent-encumbered grain will be replanted and will get mixed into their domestic grain supplies. In the long run the patented genes will be mixed with the domestic supply - which would give corporations like ADM control over their grain markets. Sounds crazy, but that's how agribusiness works.
The other thing that is happening is that the Bush administration is trying to tie this patent regime to our aid offers. The recent offer of aid to Africa to fight HIV/AIDS contained limitations that recipient countries would need to alter their own patent laws to match up with (or even become more goofy than) American laws on patenting for agricultural and pharmaceutical products. Part of why the offer of aid is only made directly from the US to individual countries, and not through the UN (and this sort of work is the one place that everyone agrees that the UN is the best organization to do this) is that the UN, obviously, wouldn't make itself into a tool of US agribusiness. Actually, I shouldn't say that the Bush administration is 'trying' to do these things - no one can stop them, so it's happening.
"So what?" you ask - good question. In the past (read: since the birth of agriculture) farmers raise a crop, eat most of it, and re-plant part of it for the next year. Nice and simple. Here's the problem - when you (as a farmer) get some Starlink corn, you haven't 'bought' the corn any more than you can 'buy' a copy of Windows - you've 'licensed' the corn and the license says that you can't replant what you've grown. That's fine for American farmers, because they operate in our world of lawers and banks and such. But for third world farmers, this type of arrangement is nuts.
Right now two things are happening. Third world governments aren't stupid (sometimes). They are resisting the practice of shipping grain into their countries that may contain patent-encumbered products. They know that some of the patent-encumbered grain will be replanted and will get mixed into their domestic grain supplies. In the long run the patented genes will be mixed with the domestic supply - which would give corporations like ADM control over their grain markets. Sounds crazy, but that's how agribusiness works.
The other thing that is happening is that the Bush administration is trying to tie this patent regime to our aid offers. The recent offer of aid to Africa to fight HIV/AIDS contained limitations that recipient countries would need to alter their own patent laws to match up with (or even become more goofy than) American laws on patenting for agricultural and pharmaceutical products. Part of why the offer of aid is only made directly from the US to individual countries, and not through the UN (and this sort of work is the one place that everyone agrees that the UN is the best organization to do this) is that the UN, obviously, wouldn't make itself into a tool of US agribusiness. Actually, I shouldn't say that the Bush administration is 'trying' to do these things - no one can stop them, so it's happening.
I think he just spilled some of the 5th he drank on the calulator and came up with it. I already figure it all out .We can solve most of the worlds problems .We put the jobless to work building homes for the homeless,Stop the banks forclosing on the farmer by paying him to grow food for the hungry.put the incarcerated and the politicians to work manufacturing things and being productive for a change.
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