blog 11: global issue

For this week’s article I read an article about a famine in Africa. The article was telling us about the famine in Africa and how people were barely living through it. What happened was that the food costs went up very rapidly and then the live stock that people were DEPENDING on started to die because of heat and starvation. This all happened because the people of Africa couldn’t buy any food for their animals either! It was a continuous cycle that kept going and it was sad because there was nothing we could do about it. WE all know how bad the economy is right now but back when this was going on imagine it being ten times worse before the prices shot up and heat is on your back twenty four seven. I think that this situation is horrible! It makes me so sad to see this happen to innocent people. It said in the article that children and adults were chewing their own lips or tongues because they were so hungry.

Gettleman, Jeffrey. "Famine Looms as Wars Rend Horn of Africa". New York Times. 17 May 2008. 8 March 2009. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/world/africa/17somalia.html?_r=1>.