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| As much of the world starves, UN sends hunger probe toÂ… Canada |
| 2012-05-07 |
| According to the World Food Program, half a million people don’t have enough to eat in Syria. Fears are growing that the regime is using hunger as a weapon. This is the kind of emergency which should attract the attention of the UN Human Rights Council’s hunger monitor, who has the ability to spotlight situations and place them on the world agenda. Yet Olivier de Schutter of Belgium, the “Special Rapporteur on the right to food,” is not going to Syria. Instead, the UN’s food monitor is coming to investigate Canada. That’s right. Despite dire food emergencies around the globe, De Schutter will be devoting the scarce time and resources of the international community on an 11-day tour of Canada—a country that ranks at the bottom of global hunger concerns. A key co-ordinator and promoter of De Schutter’s mission is Food Secure Canada, a lobby group whose website accuses the Harper government of “failing Canadians…and [failing to] fulfill the right to food for all.” The group calls instead for a “People’s Food Policy.” Wow. Like...North Korea? I asked De Schutter if his time wouldn’t better be spent on calling attention to countries that actually have starving people. ...and why Canada? “Globally, 1.3 billion people are overweight or obese,” he responded via his spokesperson, “and this causes a range of diseases such as certain types of cancers, cardio-vascular diseases or (especially) type-2 diabetes that are a huge burden.” ...and nobody will shoot at me in Canada. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #9 "Why Canada" > the logic is the UNO already knows that many of these Third World juntas would rather deny or kill their own people than initiate serious reforms, which in turn puts the burden on the world's major food-producing Countries, e.g. Canada, to save these Juntas from themselves as per Agriculture. OTOH, THE ABOVE IS THE KIND OF COUNTRY-SPECIFIC, INTERNAL OR DOMESTIC SITUATION WHICH THE "OBAMA DOCTRINE" WAS SUPPOSED TO ALLEVIATE, vee "food/hunger crimes"??? Giving out food to reward corruption and graft, or denying food to keep resisting regions docile. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-05-07 23:45 |
| #8 People have a "right" to food? Do they also have the "right" to enslave the farmers who grow it for them? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2012-05-07 18:36 |
| #7 Why do we still fund the UN? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-05-07 12:25 |
| #6 UN Hearts dictators. Only the ruling classes are fat in U.N. favoured countries. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-05-07 11:54 |
| #5 Just lending a hand to their fellow travellers "Food Secure Canada" and their “People’s Food Policy.”. Starving Africans aren't party members, they're just hungry. |
| Posted by: Spot 2012-05-07 07:59 |
| #4 The group calls instead for a "People's Food Policy." For more information and details, please contact any Super Walmart cashier. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-05-07 07:57 |
| #3 Because starving countries don't have five star restaurants. Way past time to boot the UN. |
| Posted by: Cincinnatus Chili 2012-05-07 07:53 |
| #2 And they have better hotels. |
| Posted by: kelly 2012-05-07 06:55 |
| #1 ...and nobody will shoot at me in Canada. Plus they have food. In case you get hungry or something. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-05-07 03:57 |