Supplement With Peanut Butter Base to Save Starving Children

I saw this on 60 Minutes. I kept thinking: Why don't they supply these women with some birth control? The women are married when they are 11 years old and each woman has an average of 8 children. The country has no resources and the future is bleak for everyone. The situation will only be made worse by creating more population. I think the priorities are backwards and short sighted.

I agree about the birth control. Still, the children are dying without such help as this.

"We want a world where there is enough [for everyone] to eat," Manary said. "Before then, we need to rescue [these kids]."


A quote from the article.

Bush cut funding for groups that affered birth control and condom distribution.

As a teacher, the idea of using peanut butter as a base makes me cringe. But, I suppose it's just us with the high allergy rate.

These kids don't have that kind of allergies as near as I can see. I watched the TV documentary about this a few days back. The change in these kids, using that stuff, in just a few days is remarkable.

I don't have allergies either. I eat peanut butter if I feel like it, but generally eat nuts, seeds and the like instead.

I know that peanuts are a base in at least some african cooking.

Most health food nuts avoid peanuts, reason given, because they are suseptible to some sort of virus.