{"id":1891,"date":"2019-01-26T20:52:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T20:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2019-01-26T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T20:53:00","slug":"food-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1891","title":{"rendered":"food terrorists?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hunger-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hunger-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hunger-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hunger.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the book <em><strong>This Hungry World,<\/strong><\/em> it notes that in Central America there is a food that is a mixture of ground corn, cottonseed meal, yeast and Vitamin A.   The protein it provides, according to what I was reading, is almost as good at the protein value in milk.  What&#8217;s more, <strong>&#8220;incaparina&#8221; <\/strong>costs about three cents a day per: child.  The book also notes, however, that many families there make less than a dollar a day.  So&#8230;  On a stop in Vermont several years ago, I interviewed a Mary Knoll priest who is stationed in Cambodia &#8212; where there are a lot of similar hunger issues.  What&#8217;s more, he said with Americans wasting billions of dollars a year on a host of non-nutritional junk food and beverage &#8212; in the face of such dire world hunger &#8212; it makes us nothing less, in God&#8217;s eyes, <strong>&#8220;food terrorists.&#8221;<\/strong>  You know, when you think about that objectively, much less spiritually, you have to say he&#8217;s right.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  As president, I&#8217;d use the office as a <strong>&#8220;bully pulpit&#8221; <\/strong>to try to get this across to Americans.  In fact, a good deal of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/foreign-policy\">&#8220;Foreign Policy&#8221;<\/a> spins around much more &#8220;just&#8221; distribution of resources worldwide.  Note:  Besides violence, may are fleeing Latin America because of the stark poverty.  Peoples&#8217; kids are hungry!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the book This Hungry World, it notes that in Central America there is a food that is a mixture of ground corn, cottonseed meal, yeast and Vitamin A. The protein it provides, according to what I was reading, is <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1891\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","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=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}