{"id":294,"date":"2010-03-04T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-29T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:35:39","slug":"feed-the-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2010\/03\/04\/feed-the-hungry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Way to Feed the Hungry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Frances
\nMoore
\nLappe and Anna Lappe<\/span><\/span>
\n
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bill
\nGates thinks
\nhe’s got a brilliant idea: fighting malnutrition abroad by fortifying
\nfood.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The
\nscheme, backed
\nwith $50 million from the Gates Foundation, in part encourages Proctor
\n& Gamble, Philip Morris’ Kraft, and other companies to develop
\nvitamin
\nand iron-fortified processed foods. It then facilitates their entry into
\nThird World markets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Gates
\nseems to
\nbelieve we don’t have time to address the complex social and political
\nroots of malnutrition. But in opting for this single-focus, top-down,
\ntechnical
\nintervention, Gates can end up hurting the very people he wants to help.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

His
\nstrategy ignores
\na crucial reality: Many, if not most, of the hungriest people in the
\nworld
\nare themselves farmers. They eke out a living by selling what they grow,
\nand eating it. Helping foreign food purveyors penetrate their markets
\nwill
\nonly further rob them of livelihood. For example, India’s dairy
\ncooperatives
\n— many run by poor women — would be hard-pressed to withstand the
\nonslaught
\nof Kraft’s marketing power.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Gates
\napproach
\nalso hurts the poor if it shifts tastes toward processed foods —
\ntypically
\nadding fat, sugar, and salt while removing needed fiber and
\nmicronutrients.
\nThis diet trend already contributes to the spread of diseases currently
\nburdening the industrial world. Obesity and diet-related diseases
\nincluding
\ndiabetes, heart disease, and cancer are becoming a global crisis. In the
\nThird World, grossly insufficient health care budgets are now being
\ndiverted
\nto treat these conditions, and away from treating deadly infectious
\ndiseases.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Gates thinks he’s got a brilliant idea: fighting malnutrition abroad by fortifying food.\r\n\r\nThe scheme, backed with $50 million from the Gates Foundation, in part encourages Proctor & Gamble, Philip Morris’ Kraft, and other companies to develop vitamin and iron-fortified processed foods. It then facilitates their entry into Third World markets.\r\n\r\nGates seems to believe we don’t have time to address the complex social and political roots of malnutrition. 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