Rosewicket Wicca Coven

This may not seem related to ecology at first, but hear me out:

Hunger and starvation do not exist in the world because there is not enough food. Hunger exists because some parts of the world cannot grow their own food or because we do not have reliable/affordable/safe means of transporting food there. So then, the best way to help stop hunger is not to produce pesticides and GMO foods, but rather to have people take advantage of the food that is grown locally so that we can afford to ship food to places where none can be grown.

How would you like to help transport food across the world for free, from your computer, right now?

FreeRice is a website were for answering simple educational questions (IE, vocabulary, geography, math, ect) the UN will donate 10 grains of rice per question to people in need.

For more information on exactly where the food goes, details on the program, and the objectives of the project, visit the FAQ and about pages.

Choose a subject and start playing: http://www.freerice.com/subjects.php

Home (subject is automatically set at english vocab): http://www.freerice.com/index.php

FreeRice FAQ: http://www.freerice.com/faq.html

About: http://www.freerice.com/about.html

Once I finish posting this reply I'm going to go check out the site, but first I feel the need to speak on the issue of global hunger.

I'm biased, I admit; I grew up in an environmentalist home and the safety of the planet has always come first for me, because that's how I was raised.  So it's no big wonder that I hate pesticides, genetically modified foods, and big agribusiness.  One of the problems with countries whos main exports are grain or crops is that this crops often devastate the land and, when the need for the specific crop declines, economies fall apart.  It is common sense that relying on one crop is a bad idea.  When big agribusiness goes to small or undeveloped countries, the effects can and often are horrendous.  Pesticides not only damage the environment but cause a huge number of health issues in the people that use them.  While in our country we had protests against the spraying of farm workers, the toxic chemicles still come into contact with children and adults, all over the world. 

I think sending food it a great idea, because it helps with hunger.  To an extent.  What needs to happen, like Chi said, is local economies and local agriculture that works with the land.  Even if we send all the food we can, communities that don't know how to productively work with the land and grow local crops and produce will eventually fall apart.  What would be exceptionally wonderful to see, I think, would be a large movement geared towards teaching people what their local ecology is like and how to live in cooperation with it.  I know there are programs that offer teaching, help communities that have lost the old agricultural techniques that kept the land and food supply stable, but I think there should be more of these groups and more political pressure for such actions.

That's all I have time to rant about now, hope it made sense