Birth control not the answer

5:07pm Wednesday 17th October 2012 in Letters

MRS D DAVIES is wrong to believe that the problem of world poverty can be solved by introducing birth control.

It cannot because contrary to popular opinion malnutrition and starvation are not the result of over-population, of poor climate or lack of cultivated land. The reason why hunger exists on such a vast scale is because world food supplies are controlled by the rich and powerful for the wealthy consumer. Terry Banfield, Cardigan Crescent, Cwmbran

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cwmbran man says...
5:35pm Wed 17 Oct 12

No it wouldnt solve the problem but it will certainly help, with 80million extra mouths to feed being added to 3rd world countries each year, its simply unsustainable.

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Mervyn James says...
6:04pm Wed 17 Oct 12

There are thousands and thousands living in areas where there is not the food supply to keep them alive, or the land to grow it, it still does not prevent them having more children or joining the ques of oxfam for food. Is this not just storing up codependency on the goodwill of others, with no pressures at all on the people to limit families to a level they can feed them ? Just a thought, near every appeal for saving them and sending food and money, but not a single MALE is ever shown ? It's all women and children, so where are the fathers/providers ? Would people NOT donate if they showed them doing nothing ?

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Riley2012 says...
9:51pm Wed 17 Oct 12

Mervyn James you are smack on what you say.

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Bobevans says...
10:39am Thu 18 Oct 12

Charities have been pretty much a disater with their attempts at solving poverty in the third world,

Rather than reduce is they have increased it. Much of the money being wasted on empire building by the charities., gross inefficiency and theft and corruption in the overseas countries

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Bobevans says...
10:39am Thu 18 Oct 12

Charities have been pretty much a disater with their attempts at solving poverty in the third world,

Rather than reduce is they have increased it. Much of the money being wasted on empire building by the charities., gross inefficiency and theft and corruption in the overseas countries

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Mudwolf says...
4:23pm Thu 18 Oct 12

A further knock on effect is that people particularly in Africa become addicted to aid and then take no steps whatsoever to engage in cultivation. I know it seems harsh but if this generation were allowed to starve the next would strive for self sufficiency. Geldof and that Irish idiot were never the brightest students....

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Bobevans says...
10:12pm Thu 18 Oct 12

Al the charities do is solving one famine so they then start breeding again and we get another famine and so the cycle goes on. It is more a job creation scheme for charities than anything else

The nature of many of these countries is that they have a harsh climate and floods & droughts are normal part of that climate. These countries can also only support a small population as the soil is too barren to grow crops on much of it.

The simple fact is the charities are trying to support a population that these countries cannot support. IT is doomed to disaster which is why we see when the natural style of droughts comes round the charities launching another famine relief campaign.

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Mudwolf says...
2:30pm Fri 19 Oct 12

Would you sweat and toil to grow your own food if you knew a charity would come along and feed you for free?

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Mervyn James says...
12:13pm Sat 20 Oct 12

We cannot 'feed' the world, that is for pop groups to get gongs for and sell CD's. We don't grow 65% of what WE eat. We have food kitchens HERE in Wales, over 200 of them, the difference being those hungry here ARE told to get a grip, are called scroungers and frauds and lazy, and ridiculed for having more kids and will get financial cuts as a result. I suppose the money they take from us all, goes to feed the limitless millions for whom no such lecture is apparent. If all else fails, we allow the fathers who run off and leave their families in Africa, to come here and leave their starving kids there as well.

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