Comments on: A Life Saver Called "Plumpynut"

Anderson Cooper Reports On A Nutritional Breakthrough

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by flamingoyard October 21, 2007 11:10 PM EDT
Let me help. I would like to purchase Plumpy Nut every time I go to my local grocery store. Actually I would like to purchase the electronic credit and have the Food Bank or Doctors Without Borders give the money to the foreign factories to produce Plumpy Nut. This would save shipping costs and create jobs. Hopefully this could be the cashier''s new tag line "Plumpy Nut, paper or plastic?" I could spare a couple of dollars each trip to the grocery store--so could most of America! Make it convenient for me to help feed the world along with my own family.
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by thintheherd-2009 October 21, 2007 11:07 PM EDT
If people are dying of malnutrition, then that is a sign that people should STOP BREEDING like RABBITS. I will contribute to any cause that sterilizes these people. Guess we can''t get ''em to use condoms. If these women are having an average of eight children, then there should be mass sterilization. Give all the men vasectomies. Stop this bleeding heart feeding of these people. How ''bout healthcare for all in the USA?
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by seaghost00 October 21, 2007 11:05 PM EDT
My wife and I were so moved by the story about "Plumpynut". We want to help in some way...We don''t have much, we are retired and on a fixed income, but we diffently have more than these children....Is there some group that we can donate money to that can make sure our money goes toward get Plumpynut to starving chilren?
Thank you,
John and Jean Einsmann
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by vab2ed October 21, 2007 11:04 PM EDT
Please let us know how to get money to you for Plumpy Nut for the US and all children in the world who need it.
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by uganda3 October 21, 2007 11:03 PM EDT
Who can I contact about getting Plumpynut to my daughter, whom is a Peace Corps volunteer in Rakai Uganda? Their sponsor pulled out, and there is no money for food, for 750 orphans. This will be a Godsend...to feed them before they become even more malnurished. HELP US PLEASE!!!
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by bbray51 October 21, 2007 11:03 PM EDT
Excellent report. Thanks to CBS News for informing us of this movement.
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by jpbretired October 21, 2007 11:01 PM EDT
Go one step in addition to mpnhouston''s comment: require birth control for the mother when a child is brought in for plumpynut. The real problem is that the average birth rate for women in Niger is 8! That is way too many in an environment that is already stressed for food.
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by scubba82 October 21, 2007 10:52 PM EDT
Yes, birthcontrol! Either that or hystorectomy! Please, what about OUR kids?? In the good old US of A? I am sorry but I just do not get it. Why are we spending our tax dollars on this type of treatment to save the lives of these children who will, in another 8 or 9 years, go out and have more malnutritioned children? Please explain the reason to me!!!
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by mpnhouston October 21, 2007 10:50 PM EDT
Great invention! Now add birth control to it. That''s not cruel - what''s cruel is to put even more pressure from an increasing population on a country unable to provide for the present population. I want every baby in the world to survive but the human race has got to control our population before we run ourselves off the earth.
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by mpnhouston October 21, 2007 10:49 PM EDT
Great invention! Now add birth control to it. That''s not cruel - what''s cruel is to put even more pressure from an increasing population on a country unable to provide for the present population. I want every baby in the world to survive but the human race has got to control our population before we run ourselves off the earth.
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by mpnhouston October 21, 2007 10:48 PM EDT
Great invention! Now add birth control to it. That''s not cruel - what''s cruel is to put even more pressure from an increasing population on a country unable to provide for the present population. I want every baby in the world to survive but the human race has got to control our population before we run ourselves off the earth.
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by mpnhouston October 21, 2007 10:43 PM EDT
Great invention! Now add birth control to it. That''s not cruel - what''s cruel is to put even more pressure from an increasing population on a country unable to provide for the present population. I want every baby in the world to survive but the human race has got to control our population before we run ourselves off the earth.
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by mpnhouston October 21, 2007 10:42 PM EDT
Great invention! Now add birth control to it. That''s not cruel - what''s cruel is to put even more pressure from an increasing population on a country unable to provide for the present population. I want every baby in the world to survive but the human race has got to control our population before we run ourselves off the earth.
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by mpnhouston October 21, 2007 10:41 PM EDT
Great invention! Now add birth control to it. That''s not cruel - what''s cruel is to put even more pressure from an increasing population on a country unable to provide for the present population. I want every baby in the world to survive but the human race has got to control our population before we run ourselves off the earth.
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by mpnhouston October 21, 2007 10:40 PM EDT
Great invention! Now add birth control to it. That''s not cruel - what''s cruel is to put even more pressure from an increasing population on a country unable to provide for the present population. I want every baby in the world to survive but the human race has got to control our population before we run ourselves off the earth.
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by mpnhouston October 21, 2007 10:39 PM EDT
Great invention! Now add birth control to it. That''s not cruel - what''s cruel is to put even more pressure from an increasing population on a country unable to provide for the present population. I want every baby in the world to survive but the human race has got to control our population before we run ourselves off the earth.
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by nanasheart October 21, 2007 10:36 PM EDT
How can I contribute to Doctors without borders to purchase more plumpynut?
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