I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I think I’ll do both; laugh because of the sheer and simple good this wonder food can do, and cry because of its necessity in a world of plenty.

Do you think the republicans are saying,
“They needed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?” “Why should we be their nannies?” “Lazy kids need sent to Florida bootcamp!”

Food and nutrition science, poverty, starvation and famine are as old as dirt.  In fact the Plumpynut isn’t all that new, either. I read about it awhile back.  If the world had its priorities straight, starving kids could have had the plumpynut 50 or more years ago and that’s infuriating enough to offset any joy I might take in this post. Even so, I admire DRs W/O Borders. They are inspiring and dedicated human beings.

Nice to see a ray of sunshine in a world gone mad.

Here’s another recipe I came across - ANZAC Biscuits (cookies) “...are a snack food most commonly made from the primary ingredients of rolled oats, coconut, and golden syrup….”. Can use peanuts instead of coconut if you must….... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_biscuit

How many more simple recipes abound from past generations just waiting for some dumb medical expert to stumble across, uhh???

Amazing, eh? Simply the therapeutic value of food and drink, uhh! A science lost upon the modern medico, themselves merely a bunch of “peanuts”....

But aside from that, lets look at another topic in the “third world” still existing in remote communities in Australia. After decades of neglect and incompetent management by bureaucrats and politicians (what’s new, uhh), the entire indigenous population have been made the victims of a smear campaign as an election ploy by prime minister Howard and his federal Neocon politicans.

The result is a forced “intervention” in native Australian communities particularly in the sparsely-populated Northern Territory which is coincidentally where the government wants to acquire land for oil and mining interests and especially investment form China. Thus permanent “aboriginal reserves” are being reverted to leases of ever-decreasing periods by coercing and frighteneing traditional indigenous landowners.

See http://womenforwik.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=16 and also a recent university talk by an indigeous Northern Territory government minister, Marion Scrymgour, opposing the federal land-grab http://womenforwik.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=17 She compares the current scare-mongering to the previous election campaign which was influenced by another scare campaign involving “illegal entry” by refugees form Iraq in “the Tampa affair” off the Northern coast of Australia.