Isn't it funny that with all the money charities raise for feeding the starving in Africa, they always get the same thing, rice and flour. Can't they get them some chicken or beef?
2006-12-17 09:49:24 · 11 answers · asked by Ginger 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
People in africa have VERY rigid views about what they can eat. Most of them are based on superstition. To be blunt. The foods provided are what they are because they won't eat anything else. They will starve to death rather than eat something new. This is a BIG problem in providing food relief because the foods they insist on eating are of poor nutritional value (mostly rice and millet). Also, they won't take supplements (vitamins, protein powders etc.)
A hell of alot of food rotted away uneaten before people figured out what was going on. If the situation was different, it would be FAR better to provide them with refined, fortified foodstuffs in packaging that keeps. This would enable food to be stockpiled and allow the people to build up resources of vital nutrients (most direly needed, protein) as a hedge against starvation.
People in the western world really don't understand something about africa. Ninety percent of the battle is getting compliance. You can tell people what they need to do. Give them the resources and tools. But, that doesn't mean they will do it. This has important implications for everything from addressing hunger and poverty to trying to stop the spread of AIDS.
2006-12-17 10:04:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A child can eat for a week on rice for what it would cost to feed him chicken for a day
2006-12-17 09:54:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
rice, flour, beans and such are non perishable. if they can't afford food they also don't have electricity or means to keep the meat frozen or cold. also their bodies are used to the bland eating, some food we consider wholesome or healthy their bodies probably could not tolerate. also rice and other non perishable stuff is not too expensive so they can get more of it and feed more ppl with it
2006-12-17 09:53:09 · answer #3 · answered by germanygirl_us 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
because they are the base for whatever they have there you can add flour or rice to just about everything and it help full you up and it wont go bad on the way there
2006-12-17 09:54:35 · answer #4 · answered by verrty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, rice is cheap and it is easy to grow you can feed your whole family of 13 or more if you have rrice plants they make tons so you can get it every week! It lasts for months even years!
2006-12-17 10:30:42 · answer #5 · answered by Raven 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe rice is very inexpensive and easy to grow. I guess it also expands so you get kinda full from eating it, like bread.
2006-12-17 09:57:03 · answer #6 · answered by Princesa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not only those ads could make them feel so. Their conditions are so pathetic. I don't know whom to curse for their being so, God Almighty for such inequality or Society for its own selfish acts or the parents of those children who left them in such a state. Really really, i feel so sad as you said to have felt..:-(
2016-05-23 02:53:43 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for people who are starving or not eating regular, rice is easily digested and doesn't cause abdominal problems
2006-12-17 09:53:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think its cuz rice like swells up in yur stomach and i think thats why yur not supost to give it to birds, oh they also give them beans to go with their rice, they deserve chicken, who dosent like chicken?(if yur not a vegitarian or vegan)
2006-12-17 09:51:44 · answer #9 · answered by sonni 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because its cheap and fills you up!
2006-12-17 09:56:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋