And you don't see the irony in what you just said?
Really? If you were starving and they sent you soy flour, would you be prepared to eat it?
For you it does...hell, I'm surprised TPTB haven't suggested sending surplus cheese to China or pork rinds to Pakistan... When there was an earthquake in Guatemala some years ago, some of the emergency goods they got were corrugated iron roofs and blankets, neither of which they could use. I think it was about that time that aid agencies started paying attention to local culture. Too bad they didn't do it earlier...could have prevented the Sepoy rebellion.
By the way, soy flour is very nutritious, and it may not be their first choice either, but it's one that fits their eating pattern.
SOYLENT GREEN 6151connected the dots and ~We were watching a TV show about food shortages in Africa. ~ ~They showed a woman boiling and mashing tree leaves to get some nutrition...
If you think people will eat "anything" when they're hungry, you're wrong. Obviously, you've adopted this notion that food is a constant when it is in fact, of all the human artefacts, the most inconstant one. Each person within one culture cooks the "same" meal differently than everyone else within that culture. So if the differences within a culture are given to strong variations, and each culture cooks things differently from every other culture...do you get the point?
Power bars may be YOUR solution. Fine. You buy them, you go feed it to them. Come back and report. And at some point, try something made with soy flour.
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"Compbuttion is the chief law of human existence."
Dostoevski, The Idiot
