Helping the World\'s Poor
"In 1998, the United Nations Deelopment Porgram estimated that it would cost an additional $9 billion (above current expenditures) to provide clean water and sanitation for everyone on earth. It would cost an addition $12 billion, they said, to covered reproductive health services for all women world wide. Another $13 billion would be enough not only to give every pperson on earth enough food to eat but also basical health care. An additional $6 billion could provide basic education for all... Combined they add up to $40 billion." - John Robbins, author of Diet For a New America and Food Revolution.
Kind of interesting huh? How much did congress just approve for the Iraq war, $80 billion?
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