Let me ignore the false implications and accusations in this recent posting
and get to the point. If southern Madagascar is short, then the obvious
next place to get food is from their food reserves. If the food reserves
are depleted, then the next best source is a close source - like Central or
Northern Madagascar, etc.
Shipping food from Minnesota to Madagascar is easy -- it is also deadly and
would be last on the list from my point of view.
Sincerely,
Mark Ritchie
At 06:26 PM 8/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
>"get out of the way"====What would you do in the arid region of southern
>Madagascar, of which I was thinking, when there was no rain no rain no
rain for
>a long, long time. Can't grow rice. Can't grow the greens those people
like to
>eat and need to eat. Cattle can't find green stuff to eat. People get
weak when
>they are so hungry. You should be there and try it sometime.
>
>Mark Ritchie wrote:
>
>> why not get out of the way and let people grow their own food?
>>
>> At 04:57 AM 8/8/99 -0700, Cecile Mills wrote:
>> >Re: Two Mindsets, Two Visions of Sustainable Agriculture
>> >
>> >>I know that, even if there were plenty of food sent to starving
>> >>Africans, etc., those starving people would not get. it Somehow
>> >>the food would not get there or get there and rot on the docks, or
>> >>be grabbed by some greedy person who would keep it until it rotted
>> >>because the hungry poor could not afford it.
>> >>
>> >I read about this sequence of events in the early sixties in the book "The
>> >Ugly American." Since we haven't gotten a delivery system down pat in
>> >thirty years, perhaps we should help the government department(s)
>> >responsible for poor delivery by suggesting some solutions or paths to
>> >follow towards getting the food sent by well-meaning donatoss and
unwilling
>> >tax payers to the intended recipient. If we can send a man to the moon,
>> >etc. etc.
>> >
>> >seaseal@got.net
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>> >believe it just before you see it
>> >
>> >
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