Comments on: Open Letter to the U.S. Government About the Quality of Food Aid

By: John Luster, MD

John Luster, MD — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:19:05 +0000

I agree, of course, with the principle of providing complete nutrition in our food aid, but the recommendation that this food must have milk products in it to be good nutrition is just not right. Not only isn’t milk necessary for good nutrition, most of what would be sent overseas would be produced in America from factory farms from hormone-treated cows. I think Doctors Without Borders needs to re-think this one.

John B. Luster, MD, M.P.H.
Orange, Ca., USA

By: Rabeah

Rabeah — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:01:14 +0000

Please support better nutritional food for under privileged, poor, famine stricken and war inflicted children around the world. To progress into a better future for these region the children need to grow into healthy, able, and intellectual adults. Please support this campaign for a better world.

By: Julie Zimber

Julie Zimber — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:08:20 +0000

Please send VERY NUTIRTIOUS food only! It is simply gross to send sub-standard food to the populations that MOST NEED GOOD NUTRITION to even have a chance at establishing a better lives for themselves. Please stop this tragic form of “aid” immediately!

MONSANTO and others who genetically alter food need to be STOPPED to assure safe food in this country.

Please do what is right.

By: John O Gilmore Jr

John O Gilmore Jr — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:56:01 +0000

Americans have dropped the ball in almost every important area of life. We simply no longer pay attention to what our government and the corporations are doing.

This stuff we are sending, in our name, is little more than waste fodder that farmers wont even feed their livestock. Shame on us!

Shame on YOU for allowing such a travesty to occur.

If we continue our path of ignoring the important issues of life we will become in need of food aid ourselves. Many of our own citizens are already there right now.

Love, Kindness, Forgiveness and Gratitude for the gift of LIFE is the only antidote for our ignorance (“to ignore”).

Please upgrade the “food” in our Food Aid.

By: Armstrong Ongera, Jnr.

Armstrong Ongera, Jnr. — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:55:49 +0000

Why donate food that’s either sale by date or not for human consumption? We are an aid and development organization in Kenya but we always want well wishers and donors to donate what is really needed and in good quality and standard.

Best,

By: Lois Markiewicz

Lois Markiewicz — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:21:18 +0000

U.S. food will be substandard as long as it is under the control of Monsanto and others who genetically modify foods. These foods make MANY people SICK and do not supply the nutrients of REAL food.
I told my Congressmen I wanted them to NOT vote for any World Food aid that allowed for genetically modified foods to be pushed on unsuspecting third world countries. These foods have never been tested and are not safe or healthy. We have to put a stop to this.
I cannot eat corn or wheat that has been genetically modified. How many other people are ill because of this?

By: Cherylynne Berger

Cherylynne Berger — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:52:19 +0000

The most basic ethical requirement is for us to become more humane. To become more humane means to respond not merely with the most minimal, substandard food aid. We are required to respond appropriately to the needs of all the mothers and young babies, to provide food that adequately nourishes their developing brains and bodies. We simply must succeed in changing our food aid policies to prevent children in the developing world from becoming ill and dying. These are not just someone else’s children ‘over there’, far away. The world’s boundaries are dissolving. These are, very simply, humanity’s children. They are yours and mine, and they are our future. We can not stand idly by.

By: Anna pavlova

Anna pavlova — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:35:49 +0000

Since in many food aid deliveries that have long in transit times or are dropped from planes fruit and eggs are not possible options logistically, it seems to me that such letter should provide a list of realsitically possible and logistically possible foods that would meet the appropriate criteria. I understand milkpowder is one. What else that can survive transit and meet volume requirements?

By: Bipin Kumar

Bipin Kumar — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:27:56 +0000

Without knowing the copyright issues, I have cross-posted some excerpts from this page on my personal blog.

If you have any restrictions about this, please inform me so.

The post can be found here:
http://ruralphysician.blogspot.com/2010/10/open-letter-to-us-government-about.html

By: Suresh Kumar

Suresh Kumar — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:30:28 +0000

Also malnourised children should have chance to have better food for their brain development like in the developed country. So please send them better food ……