Comments on: A Life Saver Called "Plumpynut"

Anderson Cooper Reports On A Nutritional Breakthrough

[fg1123-2009]

You can visit doctors without borders website.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org - they have information on how to contact them and/or donate.
Keep up the good spirit.

[piratehenry]

Daxan,
I''m all for feeding the living, let''s just stop creating more hungry while were are at it. There already isn''t enough plumpy nut, there is not an infinite supply, we need to do something to curb the growing demand as well.

[fg1123-2009]

Hi Clint with the Haiti organization,
I found this website http://www.plumpynutinthefield.com - it has information on where you get plumpynut. Their email is [e-mail].

Good luck and keep up the good work.

I agree birth control and stopping the mindless death of innocent children are two different issues that need to be addressed at different times. Saving these innocent children takes precedence...Plumpynut is dirt cheap and we can make a huge difference with a little. Be your brother keeper!!!..Judgment is not your call/right.

[piratehenry]

I don''t care where you''re from, what *** you are, what color you are, or what religion you belong to, once you have two kids, you need to be disabled from having more. There are times when personal freedom needs to be sacrificed for the sake of sustaining the human race. That time is now. There is not enough food, fuel, and materials to sustain our current population. We need to stop the madness of producing more humans at the expense of everything else and every other animal on this small planet.

[shelby3757]

Our family has raised money for a lot of good causes. This is one that we can get behind. I am disappointed that you did not tell us how we can help. Please give us the contact info so we can help raise money to help the innocent kids.

Tony and Debi Sclafani
Mission Viejo, Ca

[dazan-2009]

Wake up-- The children are hungry. Yes birth control is a huge problem but again the children are starving.We cannot tell the babies to wait until there is a solution.If a child was dying of starvation every 6 seconds in the USA I''m sure that would get some response.I thank everyone who is trying to help these people.

[captcass]

Although everyone wants to help starving people, including children, everywhere, what is the net result of increasing the population in a country that already cannot feed itself? The people of Niger already face famine at the end of each food cycle while waiting for the next batch of crops. What happens when more adults, producing more babies, are eating up their already short rations?
The world will have added a billion more people from 1998 to 2012, a 16% increase, and more people are starving and will be starving because we cannot increase food production to feed all these new people.
Unless a way is found to enable these new survivors in Niger to feed themselves, and their children, helping these children to survive is only going to exacerbate the problem.
I''m not saying we shouldn''t help with things like "Plumpynut", but the solution is not just in keeping more children alive. JUST doing that will only create a much bigger problem. They must also be provided with a way to feed the new, larger, population.
We increase bag limits to control deer populations so they don''t starve. How can we justify increasing human populations if the new people can''t be fed?

[piratehenry]

I can''t beliee the people at 60 minutes do two feature stories and miss the obvious point in both. What is the intellignece level of these journalists? Salmon dying, kids starving in Africa, it''s the same problem, we need negative population growth. This planet can''t support the current human load and we keep trying to find ways to support more more. I''m all for giving plumpy nut to dying kids in Africa right after we incapacitate their parents from producing more hungry kids. I''m not particular to Africa either. Any American who has more than two children is an irresponsible human being considering the state of the planet today.

[grtdane55]

60 minutes: You need to do a story on the reasons behind the lack of contraceptive use in these 3rd world countries!! Tell us why they aren''t responsible for their birth rate. Tell us why these women don''t tell the men "no!!" Every other man should be given a vasectomy the day he turns 12. You have GOT to control the birth rate before anything else can be truly effective.

[freq_band]

PlumpyNut....

It is a sad paradox.... that some people feel good about supplementing food to a community''s young, when all this does is assist in the community''s ability to create more children, hence creating more starvation.
This depletes the available sustainable resources for ANY of them to carry on.

There is a reason why most Cultural Anthropologists agree that feeding a starving community ultimately leads to more starvation.

It''s like putting out an oven fire because of a broken gas line, but leaving the gas on, then claiming "See?...look....no more fire, problem solved."

People bearing the children that will ultimately suffer from malnutrition or death....are guilty of a cruelty rarely discussed or acknowledged.

I see the producers of 60 minutes missed/avoided that too.

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[src646]

Are you aware that in developing countries, aid is tied to religious dogma. People in these countries requiring aid must agree to use abstenanace as their only form of birth control. This isbeing asked of them dispite, the infant mortality rate, increasing rate of HIV and frequency of rape. If you needed aid and it would be withheld because you asked for another form of birth control, do you have a choice?

[starttothink]

Plumpynut without birth control = even greater misery, starvation and disaster. To laude the benefits of a solution to starvation is to TOTALLY IGNORE the basic cause of the majority of the world%u2019s problems%u2014too many human beings on the face of the planet.
Doctors Without Borders are setting up this %u201Csaved%u201D population for more over-population, greater famine, suffering, war, and painful death. I am embarrassed for them.
Skip to the very next segment of 60 Minutes: extinction of the chinook, and fast approaching loss of all the PNW salmon. What is the basic problem: TOO MANY HUMANS, WITH TOO MANY NEEDS.
When will the do-gooders, and the main stream media have the guts to start talking about the real problem?

[humphreymus]

how can i donate to the makers of plumpy nut?

[humphreymus]

how can i donate to the makers of plumpy nut?

[eldiemer]

Anderson Cooper and the good doctors should supply birth control information and condoms to the mothers and fathers. Plumpynet isn''t going to solve the long range problem. Stop the birth of so many babies NOW!

[humphreymus]

how can i donate to the makers of plumpy nut?

[zhaunk]

Population of Niger increased by 30% - 10 to 13 million - in the period 2000 to 2007 (CIA factbook). More people in a subsistence economy = less wealth per capita. They would do better off if they had fewer people. Plumpynut without curtailing pregnancies = continuous dependence on outside world and exponential suffering.

[Meg003]

Here in the U.S., if truckers stop bringing food to our local grocery stores, most of us a few days away from hunger, followed by starvation. Let''s hope our diesel fuel supply keeps coming.

[cptnel65]

Wow Anderson!!! I respected you because you always spoke your mind and was not worried about the politically correct answer. This one was main stream media hog wash. I am not sure who tied your hands (joke we all know CBS wanting that good news story as long as the US is not involved unless it is blamed for it) but the real issue is mothers having an average of 8 children in a country that can''t feed itself and spreads aids and other sexual diseases at a rampant rate(Unfortunate result of an underdeveloped country. Lack of knowledge kills.Thats a real feel good story...huh!). Always save life''s when you can but not to watch them die from disease and famine when the population even grows to a more unmanageable number. TREAT THE WHOLE PROBLEM!! Very poor"FEEL GOOD STORY" Mr Cooper. I heard you quote the birth rate and then nothing. Maybe you wanted to expand but how dare the main stream media criticize another country. They save that for us. The most generous country in the world whenever disasters hit any other country. We as people and country are always first responders. Oh well just had to comment. I absolutely do not want you to be told how to do a story or what not to include. I hope you read this. Keep your integrity even if that means quitting the CBS gig.

P.S. What about all the rapes from tribes going village to village? Did you know the biggest prize to the tribal men are young boys??? Oh that''s not a feel good story...can''t print that....sorry I mentioned it CBS

[wrr5962]

Thank you, 60 Minutes, for showing the Plumpynut
story again. It is so important. Would it be possible for you to include a link to Doctors Without Borders and other NGOs that use Plumpynut for your viewers who want to make contributions to increase the number of malnourished children who receive it? Thank you very much.