I don't think there is anything wrong with wanting to make a buck. It's called ambition, and it's a nice trait. The problem arises when ambition has no moral limits and makes a buck at the expense of other people's rights. I think we both agree on that, eh?
Well, your moral valuation and your ideology are one thing.
Yep. Of course, another question is "Who gets to define what is whose 'right'?"
The food would not get to the hungry. It ends up on the black market. It doesn't matter how much money you throw at it. It doesn't overcome the problem of the corruption of the governments where these folks live.
It was a video I watched on metabolic syndrome caused by western diets. I wish that I could find it again for you, but although I looked for it, I was not able to. I can only tell you that I watched it because metabolic syndrome led to the diabetes that almost cost me my life. I couldn't figure out how it was that I was constantly on a 1500 calorie diet and still fat, nor could I understand how I could be fat and my doctor was telling me that the bloodtests were showing I was malnourished. Anyhow, this video talked about a study with obese rats that literally had their organs being eaten up before their fat was utilized. It talked about people in third world countries who struggled to get enough to eat who were still overweight. Anyhow, I can't find the video so if you don't want to believe it I can understand.
There are arguments on both sides. The flip side is that when you alter something genetically you never know what side effects it may have on the human body. You might not know for centuries.
It is impossible for that to work. EVER. Even if you threw the entire GDPs of the Gang of 8 nations at it for decades, it would not work.
You will always have poor, because you will always have people who are disabled, mentally ill, unintelligent, etc., plus a few with character disorders who don't want to work even though it means being poor (character disorders are complex as there is together a biological component, environmental component, and SIN component). Such people should still be given the basic necessities of life, food, shelter, and clothing, for themselves and their families.
Right. And that is WHY they are there - so we can be generous and help them.
"Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine people on earth. The vast majority of the world's hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9 percent of the population is undernourished."
