In Pakistan and Thailand, army troops have been deployed to deter food theft from fields...

In nasty old medieval Europe, in principle the poor had the right to go onto any field and pick up anything which had fallen onto the ground. They just couldn't pick anything which was still on the tree or stalk.

Meanwhile, in enlightened modern America, and in the enlightened modern capitalist world, to go onto any field and take anything is criminal trespass and theft.

This is just so sad...even the worlds children suffer because of greed. Also its sad that some parents cant take 10-15 minutes out of their day to make their kids a lunch to take to school though. Of course then leaves the families who cant afford to, so they would need better options for those children as well. Sad world we live in when children cant get proper nutrition or anyone else for that matter.

What is the matter with you people? Why do you always attribute social problems to malfeasance? Poverty doesn't come from greed. The distribution of wealth is a VERY difficult problem tied to many factors. The people here on simpleton.net make it sound like there are hungary kids in Africa because of corporate greed. Did it ever occur to you people that the issues in Africa are due principally to internecine conflict, a lack of sense of communcal ownership and poor aducation all caused BT THE AFRICANS THEMSELVES. Go live there for a while and get a grip on what's really happening.

Africa has over 1,000 linguistic groups. Ethnically, Africa is far more fractured than Europe. On top of that, large swaths of Africa are poorly suited for agriculture.

The worlds not a fair place. Not a think in nature ever had an equal chance at anything. Not a tree, not an ape, and not a human.

Victory in Pattani