Friends of the Earth Starve Millions of Africans to Death
Leftwing extremist group Friends of the Earth [here] have been blamed with starving to death millions of the poorest people in the world. The wealthy “environmental” international organization favors famine in Africa over humanitarian food aid.
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Food: Today’s headlines are filled with Americans expressing their fears of food shortages and frustration with spiraling grocery prices. As part of the solution, it’s time to give genetically modified crops a try.
There’s much resistance to overcome, however. In the fall of 2006, Friends of the Earth publicly asked governments in the hungry African countries of Ghana and Sierra Leone to recall American food aid that contained genetically modified rice.
Four years earlier, when southern Africa was tormented by famine, the U.S. offered 540,000 tons of genetically modified grain.
Though the World Health Organization estimated that nearly 14 million Africans, including 2.3 million children under 5, were at risk of starvation, leaders in the region rejected the food. … [more]