I have to ask this question. If childhood mortality was cut in half in Africa how many more people would there be in Africa and could African countries actually feed them?

The problem has never been there being enough food. The problem is getting the food TO the people.

Africa is a continent with massive natural resources and they have plenty of land perfect for agriculture and farming.

Warlords in certain areas simply will not allow it.

But does it have Hearts, Stars, Horseshoes, Clovers, and Blue Moons, Hourglasses, Rainbows, and tasty Red Balloons!?!?

Is it organic?

Is it kosher?

Clearly its the lack of imported food that's the root of Africa's troubles. This will solve everything. All Africa needs is more adults, after all.

Whatever happened to Plumpy Nut? I'm pretty sure 60 Minutes told me that stuff was going to end childhood malnutrition in Africa.

Hipster Mali kids with their fancy cereals.

HotIgneous Intruder: Funny how we could develop and build two atomic bombs, drop them and end World War II; plan and execute sending men to the Moon, but we can feed people.
Ever get the impression we serfs aren't being told everything about certain aspects of technology that might mitigate profitable conflict in certain areas of the world or solve problems of artificial scarcity?

/We been bamboozled, friends.

You certainly seem bamboozled, though I'm not sure its by who you think.

germ78: I once knew a hooker named Minnie Misola.

Shirley Ujest: Is it kosher?

mostly in Africa the question would be Is it Halal?, which is mostly the same thing, but this is Fark and nits need to be picked.

/and yes I'm aware that I've released a bunch of new nits...

AdolfOliverPanties: The problem has never been there being enough food. The problem is getting the food TO the people.

Africa is a continent with massive natural resources and they have plenty of land perfect for agriculture and farming.

Warlords in certain areas simply will not allow it.

i've been told that most countries can actually sustain their population but their goods are exported instead so the rich can get richer. i guess that's the flip side to all the aid food that is stolen and never distributed to the hungry. people just suck.

germ78: I once knew a hooker named Minnie Misola.

Was she a low-down hippy granola?

HotIgneous Intruder: Funny how we could develop and build two atomic bombs, drop them and end World War II; plan and execute sending men to the Moon, but we can feed people.
Ever get the impression we serfs aren't being told everything about certain aspects of technology that might mitigate profitable conflict in certain areas of the world or solve problems of artificial scarcity?

/We been bamboozled, friends.

It takes more than technology to overcome centuries of farked up socio-political institutions. Slavery, colonialism, Africa has been farked for centuries. You don't just "get over" that. It takes generations and incrimental victories to overcome that kind of devestation.

KrispyKritter: AdolfOliverPanties: The problem has never been there being enough food. The problem is getting the food TO the people.

Africa is a continent with massive natural resources and they have plenty of land perfect for agriculture and farming.

Warlords in certain areas simply will not allow it.

i've been told that most countries can actually sustain their population but their goods are exported instead so the rich can get richer. i guess that's the flip side to all the aid food that is stolen and never distributed to the hungry. people just suck.

There is not only enough arable land in the world to feed the current world human population, there is currently more than enough food being produced to feed every single human enough for them to become overweight.

It's mostly being fed to farm animals.

Curing world hunger is easy. Doing so in a free-market structure, with our current meat consumption levels, is pretty much impossible. So you pay your money and you take your choice. We can have "freedom", or we can have people not die from hunger.

Sadly, this is not only something that people actually need to think about, it's something that many people consider a reasonable trade-off, just so they can continue eating meat with every meal, and paying Monsanto part of every food dollar.