Three million people in Darfur depend on food aid from the UN. Due to lack of sufficient funding the UN announced last week that it will be halving food rations from May to 1050 calories per day. A normal person needs between 1300 and 1500 calories per day to survive. So this amounts to a diet plan for the starving and undernourished.
The International Federation of Competitive Eating has four events listed for May, people from all over the US will gather to gorge themselves on sickening volumes of tamales, bologna (current record 2.5 pounds in 5 minutes), Shoo-fly pie and hot dogs (current record 53&1/2 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes).
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It is sad to have to acknowledge that we are still so far from making the world a better place to live, and it's even more sad to see the governments and even poeple from nations we like to call "developed" to show this lack of consideration towards less fortunate countries...
I just don't understand that in the same world, there are people who are starving to death and people that eat, not for sustenance, but in a quest to gorge themselves so that other may look on in disgust.
I think the contestants and the organizers of such crude and ridiculous events should go to Darfur for a month, and then see what they think of their fun activities.
Hi Jase,
Not related to your post but a here is a lovely site, that goes a small way to making the world a smaller less fragmented place.
http://www.43places.com/
I hope a little more awareness of our world and a sense of global community takes us in the right direction.
Good luck with the bike thing...
Tim
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