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Posted on 02/18/13 by User_image_bgsmh222

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The U.S. has attempted on several accounts to distribute food to third world countries. However, this food had interacted with Genetically Modified Foods and organizations such as Greenpeace convinced them that this food would cause birth defects among their children and other things of that nature.

If organic farmers donated a small portion of their food to be sent t those third world countries, the countries may or may not accept them. In all honesty, the human population is growing faster than food supplies, but this doesn't necessarily mean that this cause is hopeless.

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  • on 02/20/13, by SpeakOutNow:

    I am wondering what your thoughts are on some of the problems with the idea of food "distribution" by large and powerful economies to developing countries, for example, in many cases developed countries can produce food much much cheaper than it can be in developed countries and when this food becomes available on the market it drives out local producers, causing unemployment in the longer run and making that country dependent on imports from the developed country - which is very bad for development in the long run. I think we need to be careful when we look at the reasons as to why Governments/countries "distribute" food to other countries - the reasons are not always altruistic.

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