One day of war in Iraq would feed 8,000,000 children for a year.

March 19, 2007 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

A calculation made by Joseph Stiglitz a US Nobelprize winning economist states one minute of war in Iraq costs US$380,000.

It costs US$0.19 to feed a child for a day. Nineteen cents. 20,000 children die of hunger every day. The time it took you to read this post, already 15 died, according to the UN World Food Programme.

Taking those two figures together, one minute of war in Iraq would feed 2,000,000 children for a day.

That’s crazy. I was always against the war in Iraq…. too much to get into that here, but I would have to think feeding the world would make people hate us less. Read the entire artcle over at The Road to Horizon, including details about how 19 cents a day could really feed a child.

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I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

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I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

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