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Famine Again?

Why some places suffer food shortages decade after decade.

Tim Stafford | posted 5/11/2007 08:35AM

To my eye Nairobi, Kenya's capital, looks good, leafed out in tropical vegetation. After three years of drought, rains came in May 2006. And the government shows signs of doing its job. The streets are ...

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H. D. Schmidt

Posted: May 12, 2007 2:22 PM

As a legal, yes, as a legal immigrant of 51 years and a Staunch Conservative Christian Republican, fascinated with all the hopes and dreams of the Founding Fathers every day more, comming from a despotic regime in all things diabolic, I wish to declare the following, because, I am one of those farm boys, who spend his youth growing the substance of life, without much of the modern ways, I will point the finger at this, my United States of America, as really the reason that there still so much hunger in the world where now daily, over 18000+children die of hunger and disease. Yes, I am a Republican, because, of the decency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who said this at one point: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed". He certainly spoke for the Founders of this Nation, under God! Did he not? How would he feel today, as America sends what?

GDP	Posted: May 12, 2007 9:59 AM

The Bible reveals the true relation between morality and environmental impact. The failure to address the issue represents the blindness of modernism at its roots, and there to missionary understanding. Kenya's monarchism turned socialism with its emphasis on human institution and community to establish prosperity continues to wilt in the withering sun of fundamental unbelief, and there to the enabling by those who believe they are making a difference in sustaining at least misunderstanding. True religion reaches climatic impact, and there even to the occasional hurricane, tornado and volcano, if only in continuing fullfillment of the prophecy of Him, only under Whose guidance and direction, calamity is avoided and ended, and there in true governance placing the believer's relation to Him above all others.

beefarmer from MN

Posted: May 11, 2007 3:16 PM

If you are a little older, and if you have been interested in farming, you would be familiar with the changes in agricultural practice that occurred after the Great Drought and Great Depression in the US. The preservation of the family farm was 'one arrow in the quiver' of trying to diversify American agriculture, so the harvests would continue to flow. Due to money driven agriculture, and other characteristics, it is possible that the type of devastation described in Kenya could happen here in the US again, as it did 70 years ago. We need to be wise stewards. We cannot afford to lose our honeybees, our fertile soil, our water resources. We need some balance and less greed. /end of message/

Rich Straight

Posted: May 11, 2007 1:57 PM

I am a missionary to a people in the former Soviet Union (I will not mention the country.) I used to send out letters asking for a bit of help toward this ministry. The last 3 times I sent out "prayer letters" to friends and churches in the U.S. asking for a bit of extra funding, it cost me almost $500.00 more for stamps, than I received in help. ONLY 1 church has been consistent in giving every year. As you (Tim) state, it certainly does appear that the USA is becoming extremely isolationistic and NARCISSISTIC in the giving attribute. I'm not really "hurting for money", but aside from missionary doings and daily living, there is notmuch to save or to spend on medicines or needed rest.) As I and my wife approach our 70's...my wife with Parkinsons, and myself having suffered a heart attack last October, I have to ask, "If the American people won't help their friends, how can they be depended upon to help the rest of the world?...It's easy to see "why we don't have numerous friends."

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