Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Do You Know What Esurient Means?


Every morning Christine Drummond, who owns the company who manufactures this product, sprinkles her mixture of freeze dried beef (or mutton or pork or chicken and/or deer) that is mixed with powdered egg, garlic, wholegrain cereals, flour and kelp on her breakfast meal. She said it is yummy and very filling. After a friends daughter came back from a trip to Kenya (That is where Tierney goes every year, see above photo) and described the 3.5 million people dying of starvation, she knew she had to do something. Drought, crop failures and food shortages have left millions of people without any food. Christine offered to send 42 tons of her nutritious mix to help feed the starving children. Mixed with water, it makes a high protein porridge. The Kenyan government is outraged and plans to block the shipment. The problem? Christine owns an organic dog food company and that is the mixture she uses in to make her dog biscuits. (But remember, she eats it herself every morning.) It seems to me that if I knew children will die today because of starvation, it might be a good idea to except the offer as long as the food is safe and edible for human consumption. Some relief organizations say it costs only .17 cents a meal to feed a child in Africa. A cool game Linda plays is on freerice.com. For every word meaning you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program. Just yesterday alone, 83,260,380 were donated by people increasing their vocabulary. Go on and find out the meaning of esurient. p.s. This was an older story I found on the net, so to be fair, maybe the delivery was accepted after the article was written.