The US Standard and A Double Standard - starvedforattention.org

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Antonin Kratochvil's bold landscape images lay bare the (mis)use of land and resources in the American midwest. The US Government Accountability Office has found that the current system of sending domestically produced blended flour overseas costs as much as 34 percent more than buying food products locally. Kratochvil maps the food-aid pipeline from the corn fields of Iowa to the ports of Africa, exposing the inefficiency of the current system and its failure to deliver nutritious foods to young children.

Jessica Dimmock's intimate portraits of families benefitting from the US government-funded Women, Infants and Children nutrition program (WIC) reveal the other half of the US food aid story. WIC supports a quarter of all American children from birth to age four and has been shown to have dramatically reduced anemia and the rate of low birth weight. The access to nutritious, enriching foods that WIC provides to young American children is a stark contrast to the nutritionally devoid blend of fortified flour dumped on starving children outside the country.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and VII Photo present Starved for Attention, a multimedia campaign to uncover the hidden crisis of childhood malnutrition. Watch 7 of the 195 million stories of malnutrition from prolific and award-winning photojournalists.

Sign the "Starved for Attention" online petition and be part of the campaign to rewrite the story of malnutrition and demand that the 195 million malnourished children get the attention they need and deserve to escape the deadly cycle of malnutrition.

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Part 1 photos: USA 2009 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
Part 2 photos: USA 2009 © Antonin Kratochvil/VII

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[teamsojourner]

I'm glad that the family @2m27s are getting hand outs, now they can afford cigarettes and McDonalds.

[creedstat]

For someone who can't afford food for her and her children that black woman is awfully fat

[GrabTheBerry]

This video really upsets me because Why are there packs of Cigarettes on the second girls table. While the women and africa treats herself last to FOOD!!! Could have done without the first half of this video. We have warmth and handouts, In other countries families sleep on hard concrete cold floors with no food!

[amsp79]

AMURRRICA FUCK YEAH!

[theskeptic2010]

Things like milk and fish have to be produced locally. Milk, fish, etc. spoil very quickly and could only be shipped and stored long term in powdered or dehydrated form. Poverty stricken areas around the world actually have the capacity to produce these foods locally but things like politics, wars, corrupt local governments, these things prevent production.

[jaykay415]

Part 2 of this video is a little off-putting. It seems to express a negative attitude, and not enough facts to adequately explain the situation. I would love to hear the complete message, albeit with more of a "let's move to make this happen" kind of attitude.

[FightGlobalPoverty]

@TheRipmister MSF would like food donors to provide a fortified peanut butter paste mixed with milk powder to young children. It doesn't need to be refrigerated and can be cheaply produced in host countries. This has already been used to treat hundreds of thousands of children.

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