World Food Agency running out of food...

This is obscene. From USA Today (via AP): 'The U.N. food agency will soon run out of food necessary to feed some 3.5 million Kenyans facing shortages caused by prolonged drought because it has received just over a tenth of required funding, a spokesman said Saturday. ..

"If we don't get any more food aid it will be a catastrophe," Smerdon (Peter Smeardon, spokesman for teh UN World Food Agency) said. "We are already on the edge because food is running out and we are supposed to be feeding people until February next year." Click here to read the rest of the article.

Meanwhile, according to Reuters, by 2010, 'the number of overweight and obese youngsters in the European Union nations is expected to hit 26 million. An estimated 20,000 obese youngsters will have type 2 diabetes, a previously adult disease.

What was that about Free Trade and fair markets and all of that good stuff from G8?! Yeah, lets not forget...