Are wealthy countries in anyway responsible to lift poor countries out of poverty?

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Between the US and Russia, we could probably provide enough food to cover the current world’s population.
I’m not sure of this, though it might be. The U.S. has the most arable land of any country, and a good part of it isn’t counted because it’s in long-term government-paid idling. Next is India, then China and then Russia. I’m not sure about india, but China is severely over-farmed. It’s running out of topsoil and irrigation water. If you look at the numbers, the U.S. and Russia combined would just about equal India and China combined.

 
Feral hogs are “shoot on sight” here. No season. Just shoot. I have not found disposing of their carcasses or those of deer to be a problem. Lots of turkey buzzards around here, and they make short work of them. A hog carcass will attract maybe 30 at a time.

I shouldn’t say the following, but I will. You can throw a fresh carcass into a stream and it will be a skeleton within a couple of days, and no stink. Fish and crawdads will eat a carcass faster than you would ever imagine. Much faster than shore-bound critters, and cleaner.
 
Feral hog sounder with taste for peanuts:


click here google youtube jager pro trapping
 
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Sounds pretty awful.
Can you throw the carcassses to the fish,or is there chance that fish could pick up disease and then transmit to people when fishing the fish?
 
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What do you do with armadillos? Plagued again.
Water is high so we have them all over the place .
I googled traps ( thanks to Monte’s ideas.),but it is a rather big area to cover…And it is full of holes again,everywhere.
It is not only destructive but a danger when one walks around.Not to mention when they get to under the floors of the galleries and barn
 
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Sounds pretty awful.
Can you throw the carcassses to the fish,or is there chance that fish could pick up disease and then transmit to people when fishing the fish?
Some people have been eating feral hogs for many decades.

Caution???

Yes!!

Here is an OLD-TIMER describing how they have been processing feral wild pigs:


click here google youtube processing Salting, Curing and Smoking your own meat - YouTube


click here google youtube gordon ramsey Hunting, Butchering and Cooking Wild Boar | Gordon Ramsay - YouTube

In a previous post, I noted how people would starve TO DEATH rather than eat PEANUT BUTTER … [well, it’s NOT BUTTER!]. They have been growing peanuts for … I dunno … 400 years at this location … but press it for the oil for export and feed the solids to cattle.

Some people worry about harmful peanut aflatoxin: Preventing toxic effects of peanut butter - YouTube



Dunno about armadillo.
 
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There is an anecdote that in the 1500’s in America, the British settlers starved while the French settlers cooked alligator tail and baked baguettes.
 
Realistically though,a foreign government or charity could not suggest or introduce wild hog catching to uneducated poor people in poor countries for risk of disease transmission.
The people in America who eat wild hogs I’m guessing are not doing it for nutrition/necessity reasons but do it because they are hunters and are aware of proper handling and cooking.
In my opinion,even they are putting themselves at risk by handling and eating animals with known viruses and parasites,but obviously they will make the decision to do so and I doubt anyone could convince them otherwise so they are free to take that risk.

No country or individuals in a charity are going to promote this though to the poor of course.

Your peanut idea is at least realistic and relatively risk free as apparently there is low allergy rates to peanuts in African people.

The thread though isn’t just about people in poverty immediate needs (ie:that they don’t die today from malnutrition) but also about their long term needs such as ensuring that they receive a varied diet to receive all the macro and micro nutrients to avoid illnesses such as Pellagra,Vitamin A deficiency,Iodine and Zinc deficiency etc and have sanitary water,job creation etc…
 
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I have no remedy at all other than to shoot them. A really large dog can kill a smaller one, but if the armadillo is big enough, the dog’s teeth just slide off the shell.
 
Can you throw the carcassses to the fish,or is there chance that fish could pick up disease and then transmit to people when fishing the fish?
Fish will eat any kind of flesh and in a hurry. Crawdads will too, with an eye-popping efficiency. I doubt there is any danger of disease transmission because few things will cross species that radically.
 
Why is Haiti so poor and Dominican doing well? … they are both on the same island.
 
Realistically though,a foreign government or charity could not suggest or introduce wild hog catching to uneducated poor people in poor countries for risk of disease transmission.
People in poor countries don’t need our suggestion to eat their wild animals, they been doing so for centuries. Their numbers are only a problem in the USA, because we have mostly stopped eating wild things, and we killed off the predators.
 
Why is Haiti so poor and Dominican doing well? … they are both on the same island.
Rev. Pat Robertson explained years ago that Haitian leaders made a pact with the devil when they got independence.
 
People in poor countries don’t need our suggestion to eat their wild animals, they been doing so for centuries. Their numbers are only a problem in the USA, because we have mostly stopped eating wild things, and we killed off the predators.
Got to thinking about Nutria which are non-indigenous and now in huge numbers.
 
The real solution is reducing the amount of money the people at the top take. Sadly, that will never happen.
If the person at the top redistributed his or her salary, each employee would only get a few pennies … but the top person might decide to not work as hard, work fewer hours, take more vacations.

The whole enterprise would suffer.
 
Giving financial aid to poor countries like Cuba and Venezuela really wouldn’t lift them out of poverty. It may be a benefit to those suffering in those socialist heck holes, but after the aid is consumed, the country would be just as poor as they were before.

I don’t think that wealthy countries have any responsibility to go into these countries and dispose of Madura or the Castro brothers to actually lift the countries out of poverty. Even thought it would be positive if they would leave, the violence it would take makes it a questionable proposition.
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil deposit(s).

How could anyone POSSIBLY help them.

Lots of countries [97 countries] have oil and seem to get along pretty well.


Except Venezuela.
 
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It’s an interesting observation.

From what I can see Haiti’s issues are multi factor involving:
Higher population
Corrupt governments
Deforestation
Financial exploitation from both within and without (France)
More mountain and less land suitable for growing crops than Dominican Republic.
Dominican citizens speaking Spanish language helps for developing export relationships
Dominican Republic appears to be more open to direct foreign investment.
Lack of infrastructure.

That said, there are some Dominicans living in poverty too.
It seems that there are some people in both Haiti and Dominican Republic who unfortunately have a “live for today” mentality.

It’s this live for today mentality that is the reason why I don’t think charity is always the long term solution in all cases.
In a country like Haiti it’s probably better for the mentality to create jobs.

In my view,the biggest factor in Haiti is corruption.
As long as there is government corruption all other factors to improve the countries economy and living standards of its citizens will be undermined.

Regarding potential spiritual factors…I will leave that for posters more knowledgeable.
 
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