Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: poor starving people Message-ID: <2818@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 12:53:27 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.2818 Posted: Tue Nov 27 12:53:27 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 05:49:46 EST References: <642@amd.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 12 > PROPOSAL > The United States should send more food to Ethiopia, but all recipients > must consent to sterilization. > > (go on, flame me, that's what I want!) Better yet, we should send them food, but also provide them with the education necessary to make use of birth control and better farming techniques. It's not that Ethiopia is overpopulated, it is that they have had some bad years and they are lousy farmers. Wayne