Wow it's almost like women are not the magical innocent unicorn like creatures we all thought they were.

This is disgusting.
We should all help those less fortunate, but we should do it privately, without any fanfare, and without disclosing that we are doing it. The poor and underprivileged have the right to human dignity, not to be dragged out on a stage and pitied.

Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
This is disgusting.
We should all help those less fortunate, but we should do it privately, without any fanfare, and without disclosing that we are doing it. The poor and underprivileged have the right to human dignity, not to be dragged out on a stage and pitied.

I agree with your sentiment, i do wish to highlight though, that need for true charitable work is more than I am exposing here.
The Starvation, empoverishment and perpetual war like state of Africa is deliberate, planned, and a propogation of extreme corruption.
This feeding display is just a "pretty advert" for their public work that seems to have backfired.

[edit on 25-10-2009 by zazzafrazz]

What could have 500,000 dollars been spent on? A trip for a videographer to visit Ghana and some of these "feeding lines" and also provided quite a few boxes of fruit for the kids to go with their porridge. Then the spouses could have watched the video in some posh hotel and still felt good about themselves, for taking the time to care.

Disgusting as well as shameful* especially coming form the UN...this is the frist time, ive ever heard of the UN engaging in criminal like activity. Im sure they have thier facir share of lies..the UN shuold just be torn down and erased form existance..it really dopsnt serve any useful purpose today. Especially, after what they did with those poor kids, using them in such a lieful demenaor manor. Barf on the UN
And!!! porridge for christ sakes!!! WTF, in this so claled advnaced world they say we live in, thier feeding the starving kids tiny tim food??? Do they honestly belive its still the year 1900? gesh i guess giving those kids something as simple as sugar coated butter cookies was jsut too much for them to handle. God forbid they could taste ice cream, or even a stupid slatine cracker...let alone some chicken, steak, vegggies, seafood.. no they chose effin prrodge.. man this is not only a slap in the face to those kids, and god do i hope some of them are smart enough to realize theyve been swindled, and cry out, get some media attention n spread the word

Even the programme is a farce, what good is feeding people if they have to rely on it for their entire lives? We need an educational campaign that gives the children a high school education as well as teaching and encouring them to start a business.

Soy porridge? So they are basically chemically castrating those children. sorry but its the truth.

Well, if anyone is going to benefit from the collapse of modern society, it will be the leaders of the G8, and their trophy wives.

This feels like some bad PBS special where the wives are already aware of what will happen to Africa and the rest of the world, and they are soaking up the cultural experience before the betrayal of their husbands turns the world on its head. This is the final goodbye before they retreat to their underground storage facilities, and they leave the rest of us to fend for ourselves.

It is proof of their detachment and corruption, and no matter how sweet those ladies look, they really do personify the mentality of "Let them eat cake". These women benefit from some of the greatest social injustices the world has ever known, and it will come back to them, whether they like it or not.

More evidence the UN is worthless.

Lets blow half-a-million to fly STARVING children halfway around the world to feed them porridge. WTF.





[edit on 26-10-2009 by ACEMANN]

What can I say that hasnt been said already? Everyone in here have pretty much summed up my feelings on thi. Its disgraceful, its inhumane, its undignified, its PATHETIC, itsdistasteful, its unnecessary, its all the bad things that I can possibly think of.

Did they really think that they were going to come out of this looking good?
WOW!

Our Govts really ARE that stupid.(thank god the US didnt attend, I would be quite embarrassed).

In my opinion, theres nothing these people can do to redeem themselves.
If they couldnt see the sickness in what they were doing, they are below human in my book.

LOL - this reminds me of how tourists pay money to see "authentic" Native American ceremonies being performed. I AM Native American - you want to see authentic? Go offroad and venture out in the communities unannounced.

"Honey - I'm back. We saw some darling children in Rome today! One of them sang a song and they all ate some porridge distributed by the programme. Wish you could have been there, sweetheart".

Ugh...

Truly pathetic.
It's easy girls, get the ol' boys to rally to cancel the strangle hold of crippling debt held by the IMF and World bank and then they might even be able to feed and clothe themselves.

This stunt is surely a sign of desperation if ever I seen one. The same group feeding them is responsible for them starving in the first place. $500,000 to feed a couple of kids. They probably could have fed their entire country for a day with that money. If they wanted to...

Poor kids were probably forced to eat their GM crap, too.

[edit on 26/10/09 by NuclearPaul]