Feed the hungry for free

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12-10-2007 @ 8:46AM

Eva said...

Sounds like a cool site - you'll have to pardon my humourlessness for a moment though. Do you know where the rice they give out comes from? I am hoping it isn't California-grown, subsidized rice - "rice dumping" is a major problem in terms of longer-term sustainability. After the tsunami all kinds of American rice was trucked in and dropped on the populace "for free" - but they already have rice, lots of rice, and the foreign imports only served to destroy the market, harm local growers, and drive down prices, etc, etc. It's one of those classic externally-based NGO errors...

So here's hoping "Free Rice" is buying their product from small-scale Vietnamese farmers!

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