Reading: Five Private Companies that are Helping to Reduce Hunger

Five Private Companies that are Helping to Reduce Hunger
Why? They removed the post this morning (2012/02/18)
Is it so controversial?


This article highlights 5 private companies which are helping to reduce hunger around the world
What do they do?

• Donate fond, cash, or some in-kind resources to HROs(Hunger Relief Organizations)
• Partner with HROs to run some hungry-addressing projects
• Help HROs to transport resources to those in need
• Help develop and educate local farmers with sustainable and economic agriculture

BlahBlah...

When I got the idea of this article, first thing came to me is that: 

• Is it remarkable of someone tinkering with a flaw of the system, after he/she has consumed so much from the same system? Here system refers to the planet.

Then I saw the comments below, and knew that I'm not alone.

Dramatic comments such as...

• Your article promotes the notion that you support companies engaged in greenwashing (or what color is this?) while producing Junk Food ...
• In my opinion, this doesn't get them off the hook for supporting corrupt corporate agriculture practices that are spraying toxic chemicals
• The fact of the matter is that their public image is more important to them than the actual integrity behind their business practices
• They reduce hunger, but increase malnutrition and kill food sovereignty...

And the official response...

• Thanks for your very comments on this issue--we know this elicits strong reactions and we appreciate the feedback. Food security and hunger are not black and white issues--we try to show that they are nuanced and that there's no silver bullet. To help alleviate hunger and poverty, we'll need strategic partnerships between the public and private sectors, including help from businesses. Does the good work of these companies outweigh the bad? No, absolutely not. We'd love to hear about any businesses you think are doing the right thing. Thanks again for your comments.

WTH... I somehow think it wasted my time reading this article.
But anyway, I learned a new word today -- Greenwashing

Add ...
Since they removed post, I just write my comment here.
When a sub-system went wrong as sucking out resources from its parent system(i.e. when its input is disproportionately larger than its output), there are following things we can do...

1. Redesign the whole sub-system
2. Adapt the techoniques of some parts of the sub-system
3. Use force(government) in its parent system to limit its input
4. Distribute part of the output back to its parent system

Any of these practices can put us in the right direction, that's for sure.
But please be awre of this:
if we are looking for sustainability.
That means the output must end to be larger than or equal to the input.
Obviously the 4th practice will never make the sub-system sustainable because initially the input is larger than output.

I guess that's why no matter how good these coporations have done people still prefer to smack them down.