A miracle solution to world hunger?

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An article in today's news:
World's hungry reach more than 1 billion in '09: U.N.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091014/world/international_us_food_hunger_fao
"The Group of Eight countries in July pledged $20 billion over three years to help poor nations feed themselves, signaling a new focus on longer-term agricultural development."
"The WFP (World Food Programme ) last year raised a record $5 billion to feed poor people as a spike in food prices in 2006-2008 sparked rioting and hoarding in some countries."
"FAO (UN's Food and Agriculture Organization) and WFP urge a twin-track approach, saying longer-term investment in agriculture development should not come at the expense of short-term initiatives to fight acute hunger spurred by sudden food shortages."
We remember from Morgan Spurlock's movie "Supersize me" that a main source of obesity in America was fast food.
Wikipedia: "McDonald's restaurants are found in 119 countries and territories around the world and serve nearly 47 million customers each day"
Lights on world !
The miracle solution that would solve the world's hunger would be to use those billions of dollars to subsidize McDonald's to open hundreds more locations in third world countries and to foot the bill so that children under 18 can eat for free ! This would provide taxpaying jobs to lots of local people. To supply those restaurants, local cattle and vegetable growers would prosper improving those countries' economies until they become self-sufficient. That would also solve the drinking water shortage as children would drink soda pops. And even if there are some health setbacks in the long term, their life expectancy would shoot right up.
And as a side benefit, McDonald's shareholders would make even more money.
Isn't it truly a miracle solution ?

VelvetRose · Accepted Answer

The only real solution  lies in mobility of people that are starving since the land they  live in is unfeasible cultivational wise ( in most cases anyway).  These people have to be integrated into societies where food is plentiful and where they can  be educated and receive surplus of food.The billions of money, and much more that can be saved rather than sending food abroad to them, and should go into several programs that will  house them temporarily, educate them and train them so they can eventually return to their countries  with new skills and educated ideas on how to all build a community that works for them. The solution lies temporarily in mobility of the people to more feasible land.

Anonymous · Answer

Those greedy big businesses should open up their big fat wallets and start donating a lot of their money to the World Food Program (which needs funds). There are over a billion people in the world who are poor and hungry. 

The money the industrialized nations used to bailout the big companies should have gone to feed the hungry. The problem is that the governments and big businesses are too selfish and care only about themselves.

Anonymous · Answer

If we were all vegetarians there would be MORE than enough food to go around.

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