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To: The US Congress
The Real Cruelty of the Covid-19 Pandemic
To make food available to all Americans
""The consequences of Covid-19 are catastrophic on a global scale. At home it can not be measured by the massive rates of infection, the sickening death rate, the economic meltdown with losses of income,and healthcare,and food shortages.. It can be measured by the cruelty of our Government that is more focused on bailing out corporations, conducting provocative military exercises abroad, and enforcing inhumane sanctions on countries already crippled by Covid-19, than it is on directing its formidable resources to feed the hungry. The cruelty is visible on the faces of the hungry who need to wait in long lines as they agonizingly witness the disposal of vast amounts of food milk and agricultural products deliberately allowed to go to waste and the meat industry sitting idle because its workers are infected. If our Government chose to it could readily mobilize paid workers( farm hands, truckers, restaurateurs), and farmers fully subsidized to deliver the 'surplus' to supermarkets and designated product retrieval locations for pick up by those in need. or have it delivered to closed restaurants to prepare meals for the needy. It is a formidable undertaking but not beyond the resources we posses. All it needs is the will to recognize the problem and leave it to experts to make it operational.
Abdul Cader Asmal MD.
""The consequences of Covid-19 are catastrophic on a global scale. At home it can not be measured by the massive rates of infection, the sickening death rate, the economic meltdown with losses of income,and healthcare,and food shortages.. It can be measured by the cruelty of our Government that is more focused on bailing out corporations, conducting provocative military exercises abroad, and enforcing inhumane sanctions on countries already crippled by Covid-19, than it is on directing its formidable resources to feed the hungry. The cruelty is visible on the faces of the hungry who need to wait in long lines as they agonizingly witness the disposal of vast amounts of food milk and agricultural products deliberately allowed to go to waste and the meat industry sitting idle because its workers are infected. If our Government chose to it could readily mobilize paid workers( farm hands, truckers, restaurateurs), and farmers fully subsidized to deliver the 'surplus' to supermarkets and designated product retrieval locations for pick up by those in need. or have it delivered to closed restaurants to prepare meals for the needy. It is a formidable undertaking but not beyond the resources we posses. All it needs is the will to recognize the problem and leave it to experts to make it operational.
Abdul Cader Asmal MD.
Why is this important?
It is unconscionable that in the wealthiest nation on earth there should be hungry people waiting in long lines for food, when perfectly good food is discarded