Do me a favor? (Warning: Graphic)

[LynzM]

Skip a couple items on your grocery list, or a few beers, or whatever suits you, and donate the money to these guys, or another reputable world hunger group.

http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/



Edited to add warning.

[Le Taz Hot]

1. Do me a favor?

Put a GRAPHIC WARNING in the subject line of your post. This is overwhelming for those of us that are hyper-sensitive.

[LynzM]

3. I'm sorry, I will do that.

:hug:

[proud patriot]

19. Thanks

:hi:

[TwilightGardener]

2. How very sad. Hard to look at, too.

[LynzM]

4. It makes me so sad and frustrated...

That people are starving, still. That there is enough food in the world, but our constructs of "money" and "earning" keep it from getting to those who need it.

[guardian]

5. Donated.

Good cause. Rec'd

[LynzM]

8. Thank you, Guardian.

I checked them out on CharityNavigator, they look to be a good group.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. is this a recent picture of a starving person?

[LynzM]

9. It's from Sudan, in 1993.

More recently, areas like the Congo, Afghanistan, and North Korea are experiencing widespread hunger.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. Thanks for posting the link

[Arugula Latte]

7. If someone drew that man as a stick figure, it would not be an exaggeration.

Unfathomably horrible.

Thanks for the reminder.

[LynzM]

11. It *is* horrible.

And incredibly unjust. :(

[Arugula Latte]

17. Reminds me of this famous photo:

[LynzM]

18. Yes, that one is equally terrible...

The photographer who took that one, I believe, committed suicide relatively soon after returning from that trip. There are some levels of injustice and cruelty that we cannot process, I think. :(

[imdjh]

10. Who is this person and where/when was this taken? nt

[LynzM]

12. I can't find any details about this person...

This is from Sudan, 1993.

http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/ - from the "famine" section of photographs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nachtwey

[Greyhound]

13. The fruits of corporatism. K&R.

I appreciate it when people post this kind of thing. We really need to understand the consequences of our actions.

[LynzM]

20. Indeed.

Like I said above, there is enough food, and enough resources to create clean water for everyone....

[imdjh]

23. How so?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/famine-relief-in-sudan-how-many-more-will-die-hungry-before-united-nations-rules-are-changed-1159546.html

We watch, our hearts are touched and the aid agencies recoup their efforts and expenses in a fund-raising appeal. A benign circle? It seems like one but for the lack of an answer to this question: are the television stations and the aid agencies telling the whole truth about this famine?

No. The famine in Sudan is in one province, Bahr el Ghazal and it has been caused, quite deliberately, by one man, Kerubino Kuanyin Bol.

[LynzM]

24. This particular famine may not have been...

But in general, we have a world structure where food must be bought, and those without money, or means to grow food, will starve, even though there is more than enough food to go around. It goes beyond corporations, even, to the concept that not everyone is entitled to this resource, simply for having been born into the wrong situation, I think.

[imdjh]

25. I think the generosity of the surplus producers is unprecedented in recorded history.

What we keep hearing about, of late, are local efforts to prevent the world's generosity from reaching the needy either because the local government wants to divert the goods for its own benefit, or because the starvation of the subject population is a deliberate act to subjugate or eradicate.

Part of the reason the capitalist countries have so much to donate is because of the corporate scale of farming.

[Greyhound]

26. Read John Perkins' books if you really want to learn the details.

http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780452289574-5">The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth about Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World

http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780452287082-0">Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Virtually every one of these obscenities the world over is the result of the corporatocracy. Kerubino Kuanyin Bol, and the hundreds like him, was empowered to serve their agenda. Africa's (& the world's for that matter) problems could be eliminated in a decade if we wished to do so.

[inna]

15. this HAS to go viral. thank you so much for this post.

[LynzM]

21. Yes, please.

I added more info in a post above about this particular photo, and the photographer who took it. This image is not recent, but world hunger is an ongoing problem. Please share on FB or Twitter or whatever works for you. :hug:

[kath]

16. I'll have to check out that org'n. Already give to DWB, CARE, The Carter Center,

and Feeding America - but I will check this group out. Hadn't heard of them before - thanks.

[LynzM]

22. Thanks, kath...

For what you already do, and that you would consider doing more. :loveya:

[winyanstaz]

27. There is something else we can all do that is much closer to home.

Two weeks ago I went to help a friend who needed a ride to the local food bank.
I was shocked to see how rotten the food was that the people were trying to pick through to find something fit to eat...and how little was on the shelves for the people to have.
A family of three was given one small chicken and one pack of sausages. The people can only go to the food bank three times a month. Think about that. Three chickens and three packs of five sausage links for a months worth of food..here in America.
I also learned that Fred Meyers is letting tons of food ROT rather than actually give it to the food banks..even though they pretend to care about the community.
When I think about the empty shelves at the food bank and the rotting food in the garbage at Fred Meyers..it makes me furious. I am sure there are other large stores that could be giving more and don't.
How can the food bank shelves be empty with three or four large food stores in the area throwing out food? I know they get tax breaks for the food they dont sell...why isnt it going to the food banks and the people who need it?

[LynzM]

29. That is a good thing, too.

In my view, any helping is good.

Can you call your local newspaper, and tell them about what you saw? See if you can either get them to dig up the story, or shame the stores into donating the food (if they aren't doing it out of a reason that is easily changed, vs. some sort of rules that they are stuck following, which sucks.)

[JI7]

28. how does this happen ?

[LynzM]

30. Greed? Corporatism? Look the other way?

I don't know, dude. Greyhound has an interesting post above, with what look to be a couple books worth reading:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6602837&mesg_id=6603642

[LynzM]

31. Kick for today's crowd...