Who’s Up For Seconds?
Every silver lining has a cloud. The looming threat of not enough food to feed everyone on the planet has long fueled the fire behind the push for population control measures. A newly released report titled “Agriculture: Towards 2015/2030” from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), however, shoots holes through this hackneyed argument on the need for population control to limit the starving masses throughout the world.
The FAO press release dated July 24 projects that the planet’s inhabitants thirty years from now will be “better fed” and will “have adequate access to food” as the food production rate will continue to increase as population growth slows. The report indicates a more than adequate food supply to feed the roughly 8 billion inhabitants in 2030. There is the silver lining, but now for the cloud. The report also predicts that in spite of the fact that food production will “continue to outstrip world population growth” the “‘number of hungry and undernourished people will remain stubbornly high.”
In the face of the good news about food production and the had news that some will still go hungry, the population controllers will continue their call for family planning and reproductive health services for these starving people. After all, they believe that there wouldn’t be any more under-fed people if those pesky developing countries would stop having so many children. No mention will be made of corrupted governments, war torn regions, regional discord or one of many other possible causes for the empty bellies.
Panda Praised for Progeny
Finally a mother living in China is being congratulated for having numerous offspring. The prolific mother in question is actually a giant panda named Lele who is a resident of the Beijing Zoo. Lele was given the title of “heroic mother” after she gave birth to at set of twin cubs, her fourth and fifth babies. Now, if only Beijing were this warm in welcoming human babies…
