An end to hunger

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
[b] Because people keep breeding as long as they are being fed.

Is this why the birth rate in the third world is so much higher than in industrialized nations? It seems to me it is the other way around. The better fed people are the less children they seem to have.

Originally posted by whodey
Is this why the birth rate in the third world is so much higher than in industrialized nations? It seems to me it is the other way around. The better fed people are the less children they seem to have.

One of the reasons that the birth rate is higher in third world countries is that the more children you have then, theoretically, the more people there will be to provide for you as you get too old to work for yourself or you become ill or disabled, etc. Third world citizens don't usually have pension plans or adequate health care.

Originally posted by whodey
Is this why the birth rate in the third world is so much higher than in industrialized nations? It seems to me it is the other way around. The better fed people are the less children they seem to have.

That's true for fairly wealthy people, but we're talking about the poor here.

Originally posted by duecer
good point. one of the factors in the US is our cheap food policy. We have made food abundant and cheap, by giving welfare to corporate farms. They in turn give us hormone laden meat, high fructose corn sugar, and bleach processed flour, all of which make for an unhealthy, calorie rich diet.

I'm waiting for Soylent Green to be available ... yummy

(wonders if anyone is old enough to figure this one out without Google or Wikipedia searches)

Originally posted by whodey
Thanks for clearing that up. Would'nt you know it, I spelled soylent wrong. Go figure? 😛

maybe you were thinking in french.

Originally posted by zeeblebot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_green

Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a bleak future in which overpopulation, global warming, and the resulting severe damage to the environment have led to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables, and meat are rare, expensive commodities, and much of the populati ...[text shortened]... e Room!, by Harry Harrison, won the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973.

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You beat me to the punch on the Soylent Green thing.... I should really read all the posts in sequence sometime so I don't look like a brainless conservative.... (am sure I will get agreement about that from some quarters here)

Originally posted by SMSBear716
I should really read all the posts in sequence sometime so I don't look like a brainless conservative.

Actually, my dear old chap, there are other steps you should take, we reckon.

Originally posted by FMF
Actually, my dear old chap, there are other steps you should take, we reckon.

(laughs) I know I should read more books by Thomas Sowell, William Buckley, Walter E Williams etc and strive to be a better informed conservative.... I been slacking lately and I'm so ashamed ...

I promise to do better... just give me another chance