A global hunger crisis has left more than 700 million people not knowing when or if they will eat again, and demand for food is rising relentlessly while humanitarian funding is drying up, the head of the United Nations food agency said Thursday.

World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain told the U.N. Security Council that because of the lack of funding, the agency has been forced to cut food rations for millions of people, and “more cuts are on the way.”

“We are now living with a series of concurrent and long-term crises that will continue to fuel global humanitarian needs,” she said. “This is the humanitarian community’s new reality — our new normal — and we will be dealing with the fallout for years to come.”

    • @cheese_greater
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      11 months ago

      The Roman Catholic church also needs to fuck off with discouraging contraception and pretending its a sin rather than the Christian equivalent of a Mitzvah

      They are literally religiously sanctioning the proliferation of poverty and human suffering so they have their precious fucking converts. They are beyond fucking evil.

      • FiveMacs
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        311 months ago

        They just shouldn’t have a global voice, period. They have zero role in modern world and society. That goes for all religions.

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          I think religion—when its neutered of all arbiting power and its just like another club—is fine. It can be good for community building as long as everyone keeps themselves from taking things too seriously. Unchecked, absolutely.

  • @CluckN
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    111 months ago

    I’m one of those people after I finish eating a pound of pasta.