NEED TO KNOW | The silent epidemic of malnutrition | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/video/malnutrition-the-silent-epidemic/2... Doctors Without Borders and phojournalists from the agency VII traveled all around the world to document the silent epidemic of malnutrition -- not a lack of food, but a lack of the right kind of food. Need to Know on PBS discusses with Susan Shepherd of Doctors Without Borders how U.S. food aid, consisting mainly of a corn soy blend, does not give developing children in impoverished countries the nutrition they really need.

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• hunger
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• starving for attention

[DVDluvr123]

@Nueroactive Was this your first attempt at speaking English?

[Nueroactive]

And the media that people consume in certain areas starve the souls. Lots of food in the USA but toxins "on air" (media) that stir up the people to kill one another. Cruel shaming via media is everyday as a ready staple to sicken the people from helping. As cynism is induced via programming/ mind manipulations work to make us more and more disgusting to the world.The media pits the nations by feeding them lies.Your soul nutrition is so limited you return to toxic media.(Doc evil's recipes)

[Owleyes888]

Doctors Without Borders are without a doubt healing so many lives.

[ronnyrosco09]

This is why I love PBS

[topeson]

loved it. great reporting. thank you

[lifehappens]

despite all that, there are plenty of children in america who are malnourished and i dont mean theyre starving but rather are not getting the nutrients they need to physically grow up healthily and properly. im saying what america is doing, treating non american children with a different standard, as being right and the us can improve on what theyre doing now but where is the rest of the world? the countries that need the aid need to clean up their corrupt gov and deliver the aid where its neede

[zankhe43]

if it were up to some companies-Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Mars would create liquid diets for those people. they can sure get their candy bars and crap there without a problem.

[zankhe43]

she just learned of it 7 years ago-where has she been? this is not new. many places are monopolized in one way or another-either by governments or companies that cause many limitations both to and from the people. the problems won't change until those things change and the people are educated enough to know what to fight for and feel they have a right to fight for because they are humans just as anyone else in any part of the world.

[derebin]

I dunno, I'm just contemplating.

I really have no clue how to solve this dilemma.

It all really challenges your values and ideals...

Ah well, I appreciate being informed and given something to think about!

<3 PBS

[derebin]

Seems this all comes to the economy of resources and how to best optimize nutrition.

Can the resources of the world properly sustain humanity as it stands now? If not and many of the people in impoverished countries died out then would we all be well-fed and content... or would the 1st world countries just expand their quality of life and a new segment of humanity would be malnourished?

If this suffering should end maybe we should all be eating that paste...

But should the government enforce it?