Response #3

The next entry which I read, also from ireallylikefood.com, was called "Forget Conan, Forget Jay; Starving Billion NEEDS US TODAY", and it was posted on January 20, 2010. It was written by the normal author of the blog, and it was about how he had been deeply inspired by a TV special on that earthquake in Haiti to send $5 to the World Food Programme. In this blog, he appealed to the reader's Ethos, and Pathos, by talking about how we have lots of food but the people in Haiti do not, and then saying that we should each send them $5.

Sometimes I can't help but think that situations like the one in Haiti are hopeless. What is the statistic? *looks it up* ok, as of 2001, 36 million people die of starvation each year, 6 million of which are children. Honestly, i fail to see how that kind of statistic can be resolved, even if an organization is lucky and gets 100 million people to send $5 to those people, and assuming that a meal is $1, thats 500 million meals, and it amounts to about 36.89 meals per person. That's just roughly only one meal a day for a month.... you know, with organizations like WorldVision, maybe that isn't so far out of reach, except that 100 million is a whole third of the us population, and that doesn't even include the 10 percent who don't have jobs, and the whatever percent who just don't give a damn. Learning about things like this just make me angry at the world.