I dunno WTF people expect of us.Here we got two wars going on, at least one in the incubator and who knows how many * low level* insurrections like the War on Drugs and whatnot that we're sponsoring South of the equator. Mercy,we can't be giving no steenking hungry kids free lunch too! There just ain't no quarterly payoff in it.
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original-blogcriticsSenate Committee Cuts Mandatory Funding for Global School Lunch ProgramWritten by
William LambersPublished November 03, 2007
The Senate Agriculture Committee recently voted to cut mandatory funding for McGovern-Dole on the 2007 Farm Bill. This is the program that provides school lunches to children in impoverished countries. Within weeks the Farm Bill will be finalized and if the Senate Agriculture Committee's decision stands, McGovern-Dole will suffer a setback in building a global school lunch program.
Countries like Afghanistan, Kenya, and Pakistan all benefit from school lunch programs sponsored by McGovern-Dole. School lunches not only fight child hunger, but also increase school attendance and performance rates. With healthier, educated children nations are more likely to progress and build peaceful, stable societies.
Charities like Catholic Relief Services, C.A.R.E, Food for the Poor and the UN World Food Program carry out the school lunch programs. With 300 million children suffering from hunger there is a tremendous need for school lunch initiatives in developing countries. However, most of the McGovern-Dole applications by the aforementioned charities are denied by the United States Department of Agriculture. There is simply not enough funding allocated by Congress to McGovern-Dole.
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