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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n3386661.shtml
So I watched a report on CNN regarding the above product and its use in Africa. The argument by the doctors treating the starving children was that Plumpy Nut was a no-brainer and was saving lives.
If you read the article above, I think you will agree that Plumpy Nut is making a difference. At the risk of being branded the most evil bastard on this forum, I would argue that Plumpy Nut is going to kill more children than it saves and should not be used without mandatory birth control including sterilization.
Agree/Disagree?
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Pretty hard not to agree. Its hard to be like "omg don't save the children," but these mothers are already stupidly having children that they cannot support or feed. Once all their kids grow up and stupidly have their own children, the problem will be the same but simply multiplied.
From the article:
It's hard to imagine a less industrialized country than Niger. On a list of 177 developing countries, the United Nations ranked Niger dead last -- least developed. More than 70 percent of the people don’t know how to read. Most work in the fields and earn less than a dollar a day. Nomadic goat herders still roam this land -- their children and their kids travel by camel. Goats seem to be the main garbage disposal, but clearly the goats are falling behind. You can still spot a skinny guard dog, but we were told all the cats have been cooked.
In the countryside, where 85 percent of people live,
girls start marrying as young as 11 years old. By the age of 15 most are wed, and by 16 most have already become mothers. The average woman here will give birth at least eight times in her lifetime. But largely because of malnutrition, one in five of their children will die before they reach the age of five. Of those who survive, half will have stunted growth and never reach full adult height.
I mean, why is money going to help increase the population of a society that already cannot support itself? More children living = more children in the future who face malnutrition and death