On cats and world hunger
Aug. 5th, 2005 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212I took Audrey out for a walk this morning. We were about midway through the route I was planning on going through, when we ran across a cat. This isn't that unusual, there are a lot of cats in the neighborhood, but this cat was different. It was rail thin, skinnier than Shroedinger was when we took her in. It looked sick and limp, and it was barely responsive. I skipped out on the rest of the walk, left Audrey in the hands of my brother, and took some cat food out to it. The cat ignored the food, as if it didn't recognize it as food at all.
As if to make the contrast more keen, a house cat came to investigate, see what I was doing. It was a normal pet cat, and it was three times bigger around than the first cat.
Is that what we face, where there is extreme hunger in the world? Do aid workers face this kind of contrast when they work in places like Sub-Saharan Africa? How can anyone deal with that without going crazy? And the fact that we ignore this, this pain and suffering going on around us, because we're more concerned about what crazy stunt Tom Cruise has done this week? It sickens me.
I know what my church is doing, that we are actually trying to help these people, but what about others? What is our country doing as a whole to stop this? Congress just passed a bill that wastes millions of dollars, could some of that have been spent to provide help to people who really need it instead of spending 100,000 dollars on a traffic light?
As if to make the contrast more keen, a house cat came to investigate, see what I was doing. It was a normal pet cat, and it was three times bigger around than the first cat.
Is that what we face, where there is extreme hunger in the world? Do aid workers face this kind of contrast when they work in places like Sub-Saharan Africa? How can anyone deal with that without going crazy? And the fact that we ignore this, this pain and suffering going on around us, because we're more concerned about what crazy stunt Tom Cruise has done this week? It sickens me.
I know what my church is doing, that we are actually trying to help these people, but what about others? What is our country doing as a whole to stop this? Congress just passed a bill that wastes millions of dollars, could some of that have been spent to provide help to people who really need it instead of spending 100,000 dollars on a traffic light?
