The UN world food programme should end...?

Question

Food relief is a disease. The more you give countries food, the more they want it, and they lose all self-respect for themselves. what country can't afford to feed it's people? It's a shame to see so many line up for food, to see fights over the food, and these people are getting the worst corn, the scraps that America wouldn't feed to their own cattle. Let the people FARM for themselves, sell their crops, get money, and live off of their land. Povery can only be solved if the people do it themselves and the useless UN stops meddling in other countries buisness. These UN peacekeepers who rape women in the Congo. These UN peacekeepers who did nothing to stop the Rwandan genocide, who refuse to call Darfur a genocide, who are doing nothing for the tragedies in Northern Uganda.

give me your honest opinion about this.

(this is my topic for a civics paper..I'm a sophomore in high school)

oh, and read Shock Doctrine if you haven't, look it up on youtube. the truth is there, look.

jpenergy

so that's what you think?
I hope you realize it's my parents who gave me these ideas, which i am now exploring on.

p.s the truth IS on youtube, look up Shock Doctrine.

pdooma
very good points there, and thanks for the picture. i've actually been to Kibera, on a trip to Kenya last summer.

i realize that this is a pretty abrupt question and may seem really stupid, but this is what I'm really trying to say. Don't end the programme, but start fair trade. that's the way to end poverty. Go here to learn more, and sign the OXFAM petition.

http://www.oxfam.org/en/programs/campaigns/maketradefair/index.htm

Answer 1

Massive die-off by famine benefits no one.
Many countries can't consistently produce enough food to feed their citizens - due to warfare, drought, etc. They have never been stable enough or productive enough to stockpile food against famine years.

There is an unusual dynamic that arises when a massively wealthy country trades with a massively poor country. The slightest twitch or blink by the wealthy country destroys the economy of the other. Heaven help them if the country has natural resources - their political leaders will be corrupted by the wealth that control of the resources gives. The government will be overthrown by warlords seeking control of the wealth. Subsidence farming has no interest to these factions and the people will starve as they are run from their land.
That the UN is toothless is a reflection of the US's lukewarm membership.

Answer 2

These people do know how to grow their own food. The problem is that the Country's have monsoons and several year doughts that drown or burn the crops out. Why should the people suffer for something nature did and other humans around the planet can help with. Are we really supposed to let them starve? And, then there is the ravages of war that wipe out entire communities and farming areas. The UN peacekeepers in the Congo, Darfur etc. are totally separate than those people from CARE and the UN food program who distribute food. UN peacekeepers are generally people from the region of the very country that they are supposedly protecting. I think we agree in saying that much of what they do is a failure. But the world food program is not a failure. If anything, there isn't enough effort being done at all from everyone around the world because no one really cares. That's the real failure and therein lies the real tragedy.
The Shock Doctrine is a film and book by Naomi Klein. She's really amazing and an extremely informative writer and speaker.
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

Answer 3

I wonder how all those saying the World Food Programme is essentially garbage would feel if all of a sudden they woke up to people dying around them, their home destroyed, their parents, children and/or siblings killed AND STARVING. How can people make such barbaric, groundless statements and completely overlook the entire concept and purpose of this international organization all because there have been SOME negative outcomes. What about the huge benefits associated with this organization? It reaches more than 80 million people in over 75 countries a year plus so much more. Not only are the beneficiaries of this organization women and children, but also refugees, internally displaced individuals and returnees. When there is no opportunity being handed to you and all you can think of is where your next meal is going to come from, you can't help but "line up for food." Some would consider than human nature while other (heartless assholes) consider that a shame. Food Aid to a country is not in least like dumping cheap exports on a manufacturing country. Food aid to a country is helping feed those who are suffering from malnutrition because their governing organization cannot take care of them, and those who's arms and legs got cut off because they just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, those without a home and money, those who got pregnant as a result of war crimes, those just born into a really **** situation, those with ultimately nothing. How they are getting food shouldnt be the topic of criticism. The topic of criticism should be how people, despite getting help, are taking advantage of the kindness so generously being offered to them. For example, Hammas who took food aid to bribe voters and sell in the black market. Should the conclusion from this be that food aid increases corruption and the World Food Programme be abolished? What about all the individuals in Palestine who were fed and helped as a result of this food aid? Should all that just be overlooked? Food aid is for people who don't have enough to live a healthy lifestyle. If someone can truthfully say that if they had nothing (no parents, siblings, home, clothes, jobs, opportunity) and could still make it on their own with no help whatsoever I will retract my statement.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Food aid to an agricultural country is like dumping cheap (eg Chinese) exports on a manufacturing country. It ruins local farmers and so causes famines the next year. To be fair to the UN et al, they try to help local farmers but the money tends to get into the hands of only the big farmers who are friends or relations of those countries' rulers.
Most African countries were once self-sufficient in food. There is not so much a shortage of food, as a surplus of war and bad government.

Answer 6

Yes, it's the same story in most countries year after year. If the people living there where intelligent they would do some thing constructive about the problem. Since nothing has been done in the 40+ years I've been studying the world situation the only conclusion is they are not intelligent so nothing needs to be done about their situation. Want to live like an instinctive animal then be prepared to accept the natural consequences of your actions, it's not my problem.

Answer 7

The problem with any UN program is management. Most of them are a waste. Now that Kofi Anan and his playboy kid are gone, I will give the new crew the benefit of the doubt for now.

The problem with food programs is that the UN is good at collecting the money and goods but not very good at delivery and control. The food ends up in the hands of war lords who use it as currency.
Somalia is a good example. Clinton showed up with food only to find out that they had plenty of food but it was being held by islamic terrorists that were using it to control the population. All we did was add to their wealth and power.
Once we tried to undo the mess, Black Hawk down.
Clinton went home crying with a bloody nose.

Answer 8

You are right about them not doing much back in Rwanda and even now with the children of northern uganda and darfur. But let's not get extreme the U.N has done some good stuff. And you are right that you shouldn't give food to countries or money for supplies they need. You need stability!
for ex.
*A fundraiser for people to buy mosquito nets for the people in Africa (to aid against malaria), is not very efficient. Because someone can either lose or damage theirs which can result in a person stealing others or not having one.
*But how about a fundraiser for building a factory that makes mosquito nets for the people in Africa, that'll always be able to supply.

What's important instead of giving money for a year worth of food is, what about the next year? The people there need stability, they need farms;seeds;goats for milk. They need to be able to do these things by themselves, instead of us spooning food and etc. to them. Because it'll become useless.

Answer 9

Having lived in some of the worst places in the world (my folks were traveling missionaries) I can tell you that it's so far beyond just letting people farm. Yes, people need to reach up and stop their own poverty, but there are lots and lots of people who will simply die before they can claw their way out. This is particularly true for displaced people groups who have fled from warzones and other terrible situations and are now in a place where there are thousands of escapees out of their native land and starving.

Here's an interesting site about people who are trying to scrape out of nothing... http://www.theirc.org/

And then take a look and tell me how you can simply stop helping...

http://images.google.com/images?q=kibera+slums&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Answer 10

The UN should be abolished and the building destroyed!In the name of peace they have instigated almost 300 wars in the past 60 http://www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/nworder05.htmlyears.