World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize

#1

This mainstream media report was condescendingly disingenuous with a positive spin about the award. It felt like that to me. It starts with the headline. But I am biased against main stream media reporting.

The World Food Programme can do with the recognition for their humanitarian work. https://www.wfp.org/

The images they showed of food being distributed from storehouses were wheat flour and vegetable oils. It highlights that desperate space between starvation and poor nutrition. And demonstrates that a highly processed, high carbohydrate and cheap industrial seed oils are a survival ration.

The aims are more nuanced than wheat and oil:

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I wish the report editors had shown the workers distributing chickens :rooster:

https://www.wfp.org/nutrition

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This is mainly a comment on what is reported/ shown in mainstream media as food, and that not many watching it would note the quality of the ā€˜foodā€™ in the clip chosen by the media editor. This ā€˜foodā€™ is likely purchased or donated from wealthier nations. What are we sending to the starving people of the world?

There was a discussion thread in the forums a while back where a contributor was railing at the toxic foods being imported into his country. Iā€™ll have to find the link. You can see that his message has stayed with me and was triggered by the choice of these media images.

Well done to the World Food Programme for the recognition of their work.

Link: https://youtu.be/D_KUTWEka4A

(UsedToBeT2D) #2

Itā€™s a developing market for processed food and medications.

(Ronald Weaver) #3

Check out the physiques on Australian Aborigines on old YouTube clips and compare them to modern images of Aborigines. These people were prevented from eating as theyā€™d done for thousands of years and given flour, sugar and alcohol. And look what itā€™s done to them !

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #4

The same with aboriginal peoples all around the world, alas! The Pima Indians of the American Midwest being one very sad example.

(Consensus is Politics) #5

There was a documentary about sugar, and the part about the Australian Aboriginals made me cry. They really hurt these people. I hope they have someone there at least attempting to sue those responsible for doing this to them. Horrendous is to gentle a word. But all is not lost, the fellow doing the documentary explained Keto to them. They seemed both pissed and pleased at the same time. My exact same feelings when I cured my diabetes in a single day eating ZERO carb keto.

Keto Vitae!

#6

Was that Pete Evansā€™ Magic Pill documentary?

(Consensus is Politics) #7

Iā€™m not sure. I need to look around for it now. brb

ā€œThat Sugar Filmā€ and the name was just how I searched for it, LMAO

just the 8 minutes about them can be found hereā€¦

and the entire video hereā€¦

(Ronald Weaver) #8

Too true, is it not obvious what the standard diet does ?

(Bob M) #9

The reason that stuff is given out is the same reason it has infiltrated everywhere: itā€™s portable, needs no refrigeration, doesnā€™t go bad, etc. Beans are probably next.

Iā€™d rather see them providing people with goats or other animals.

(Consensus is Politics) #10

Provide them with both. Livestock to raise to eat, and grains and such to feed the livestock. AND TEACH THEM how to farm, so you dont make them dependent, but instead self sufficient (but I guess that goes against the political narrative).

(UsedToBeT2D) #11

I thought the Aboriginals were pretty self-sufficient before the Westerners arrived.

(Ronald Weaver) #12

ā€¦or just leave them alone ?

(Ronald Weaver) #13

Indeed, for at least 40,000 years.