UN official sparks debate over Canadian food security

mentalfloss

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That's fine, but where the problem lies is in the practice of employing highly dramatic over generalizations relating to deaths as a result of starvation.

Go and reread the thread and you'll get the gist of that point

I have seen families struggle with balanced diets and I have seen families that would make you think Lays and Pepsi were a major food group. Seems to me a bit more paying attention in health class would bring a vast increase in security

Please lone wolf.

We do not need your dramatic over generalizations of death stemming from starvation tainting this otherwise fair and balanced thread.
 

BruSan

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Full circle again!

Now we're baclk to differentiating between the availability of nourishing food and the choice of accessing that food.

U.N. stating we need to assure all have access is like saying: we are obligated to not only guarantee the food is available but ALSO force everyone to choose it over other things they might wish for be it ciggy's, booze, smack, colas and chips.

The U.N. has no special interest here of course. I mean they wouldn't purposely pick a nation with an already proven track record of providing the necessities of life to everyone from refugees to the indigent then make an announcement that goes off into LaLa land.

While expending this hot-air, Somalia and many other areas of the world languish in abject squalor but hey, we identified Canada as a place that needs attention.

God forbid they actually identify a legitimate problem area on the planet and develope an efficient non-corrupt manner of addressing it!

Observing their charter seems impossible for these mindless drones.
 

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While expending this hot-air, Somalia and many other areas of the world languish in abject squalor but hey, we identified Canada as a place that needs attention.

No kidding! Isn't that a howl!

God forbid they actually identify a legitimate problem area on the planet and develope an efficient non-corrupt manner of addressing it!

Observing their charter seems impossible for these mindless drones.

I like how you added non-corrupt.

But no... the UN is incapable of action in places like you mentioned.
 

mentalfloss

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While expending this hot-air, Somalia and many other areas of the world languish in abject squalor but hey, we identified Canada as a place that needs attention.

This infantile argument has already been dealt with.

He travels everywhere and lays out the appropriate objection to each country's squalor. Also, this doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.
 

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Who wants a rhubarb tart. I made them myself. The rhubarb was free and I used about 25 cents in flour, lard and energy to cook them.
 

BruSan

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This infantile argument has already been dealt with.

He travels everywhere and lays out the appropriate objection to each country's squalor. Also, this doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.

Infantile; alrighty, same back at you MF! He doesn't travel everywhere; he travels to only those countries with open borders AND also invite him. That would negate your infantile definition of "everywhere" I would surmise.

Other than taking nourishing food to those identified as needing it and strapping them to a gurney and force feeding them what other improvement could you opine for the likes of Canada or the U.S. just for two?

C'mon let's nanny up there another level eh, MF. Sheesh.
 

mentalfloss

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Infantile; alrighty, same back at you MF! He doesn't travel everywhere; he travels to only those countries with open borders AND also invite him. That would negate your infantile definition of "everywhere" I would surmise.

Other than taking nourishing food to those identified as needing it and strapping them to a gurney and force feeding them what other improvement could you opine for the likes of Canada or the U.S. just for two?

C'mon let's nanny up there another level eh, MF. Sheesh.

Ha.. Sorry, I was baiting. :)

I'm sure he's been to a number of developed and developing countries. It looks bad on us that we accepted his invitation (for whatever reason) and then later treated him like complete $hit when we didn't like his diagnosis.
 

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Were my questions to hard for you?

Thr Pharisaic nature of much of the commentary here rather surprises me.
You don't surprise me in the least. But you really shouldn't be so harsh on yourself, you aren't so much a parasite, as you are a run of the mill ideologue.

Not this "Holier than thou" stuff.
Than try leaving the "holier than thou" stuff out of your posts, if you don't like it.

I ate lunch for free today....
I'm going catfishin' tonight. The license cost me less than a meal for 4 at Mcd's. The catch will make more than one meal. While we're there, we'll pick cattails for their roots.

The theory is that there exist people who are poor and cannot afford to buy food that would allow their household to be "food secure" (according to the USDA definition).
The theory eh?

They need you to teach them their own heritage?
I have to back Fuzzy on that. I teach traditional hunting to Native and non native youth.

You may well have pointed this out...
There's no 'may well have' about it, he did point it out.
I wrote in another thread of the degree to which both minimum wage and welfare are less than they were thirty five years ago.
And you were wrong there too.

That is why there are hungry people in Canada and some starving. There were no food banks then and none needed.
Just soup kitchens and drop in centers.
Without the UN we would be back to the 1930s and on the brink of war permanently.
You mean like we are now?

Ha.. Sorry, I was baiting.
You should do that in the bathroom, pervert.
 

CDNBear

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Do you prefer them boiled or fried?
Cat fish, Fried!!! Dusted lightly in seasoned corn flour, and fried in bacon grease!!!

Boiled is just rude and fried isn't healthy. So smoked and BBQ'd it will be.

Cattail root, the juvenile roots are excellent raw.