by thecodepounder
May 9, 2008 at 8:55am Not least of which is that the oil-rich nations of the Middle East are not exactly humanitarians. And before anyone accuses me of being a “bleeding heart” whatever, this story comes from Fox News, so shut up.
Turns out that even with skyrocketing prices oil prices, these nations give a “near-invisible amount of money … to the World Food Program (WFP), the U.N.’s food-giving arm”.
WFP internal documents show that the major oil producing nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) gives almost nothing to the food organization, even as skyrocketing oil prices and swollen oil revenues contribute to the very crisis that the U.N. claims could soon add 100 million more people to the world’s starving masses.
The overwhelming bulk of the burden in feeding the world’s starving poor remains with the United States and a small group of other predominately Western nations, a situation that the WFP has done little so far to change, even as it has asked for another $775 million in donations to ease the crisis.
