Some people are hungry

Joey Sawyer Soc 202 1/18/08 4:12 pm

After googling food shortage, I found a large number of articles like the one I found at (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/14/content_7421545.htm) that were about southern asian and african countries that are suffering from major food shortages due to a number of factors. In Afghanistan, for instance, 1.3 million people in rural areas are suffering due to a recent price hike in essentials like flour and oil. The fact that the country is not stable, even without the taliban regime in charge, is not helping people to get food in obscure areas of the country. There is an effort to get them aid, but the trucks are often attacked and/or robbed. These sorts of things have been happening so long that it is not a shock, but it is good to get the details.
The Sudan is doing poorly, of course, so I didn't even read that article, but one about food shortage in the US caught my attention. I am wondering if anyone that lives in the US even knows what it is like to have a food shortage. having to downsize your successful restaurant is a little different than not eating for a couple days so your kids don't die. I wanted to see what a food shortage in the US was like, so I read on....
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/10/eveningnews/main562666.shtml
This is the website, check out the last line, a quote from someone donating food "we are supposed to look out for our brothers and sisters." This woman has unwittingly made an ethnocentric and mildly racist remark, by not including the rest of the world in the category of our brothers and sisters. What she considers her society is not humanity, but americans. She is baffled that we give aid to other countries while we need help, but these people line up to fill their gas powered vehicles with groceries. FILL them with groceries. They are not walking their donkey through a minefield to get a bag of flour. Drive your chevy blazers to a better planned city and start over with your american dream. Don't complain about how you are trapped until someone with a gun tells you you are. I am not impressed.

again those websites are:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/14/content_7421545.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/10/eveningnews/main562666.shtml