{"id":1595,"date":"2017-01-14T20:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T20:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2017-01-14T20:05:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T20:05:22","slug":"cambodia-malnutrition-food-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia; malnutrition; “…food terrorists”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0 book Cambodia (A Shattered Society)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 notes that under the Khmer Rouge regime, there were “mobile brigades” of youth, and adults, who worked exhaustively each day in the fields of agriculture, industry and fishing.\u00a0 What’s more, they were rationed merely small portions of rice, a small amount of vegetables, and very<\/em> occasionally some “fish paste.”\u00a0 It was a diet almost totally devoid of protein.\u00a0 While the Kmer Rouge regime is no longer in power, significant parts of the country are still not faring much better when it comes to, say, nutrition.\u00a0 In our cross country travels, we met a Maryknoll priest in Vermont who is stationed in Cambodia. (He was back in the states visiting family.)\u00a0 This priest said he is surrounded by malnutrition and starvation in Cambodia.\u00a0 What’s more, he noted that a majority (66%) of Americans are now overweight.\u00a0 He then drew a corollary.\u00a0 He said on “9\/11” America lost 3,000 people in the tragedy.\u00a0 However, he continued, 24,000 people silently starve to death in the world, every day.\u00a0 With many Americans over-consuming nutritious food, and also wasting<\/em> billions of dollars on non-nutritional junk food and beverage in addition. In God’s eyes, the priest lamented, many Americans are nothing short of: “food terrorists.”\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Our foreign affairs position<\/a> paper addresses some of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0 book Cambodia (A Shattered Society)\u00a0 notes that under the Khmer Rouge regime, there were “mobile brigades” of youth, and adults, who worked exhaustively each day in the fields of agriculture, industry and fishing.\u00a0 What’s more, they were rationed merely …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}