Some Knowledge

There is a word game called Free Rice that donates grains of rice to feed the hungry.  Apparently the link adder is not working on the new WordPress interface, so here is the URL:www.freerice.com/

All you have to do to donate rice is to choose the correct definition for a given word from a multiple choice list.  If you get the answer right you donate 20 grains of rice.  If you play all day you might actually feed somebody.

The rice is paid for by advertising that shows up on the bottom of the answer page.  This is not the easiest game, but the questions get easier when you get wrong answers.  If you get a lot of answers right in a row it throws you some pretty strange and unusual words and words in foreign languages like German and Greek to try and trick you.

There are about 30,000 people who starve to death every day on earth.  It would take a lot of annoying questions if this game was the only thing that could feed them.  I don’t like the idea of being flashed with thousands of advertisements as I answer impertinent questions about what words mean.  There are other sites that donate whole bowls of rice just for clicking on one link.  I guess they get more cash for their advertising.

It’s a nice idea to try and feed people by selling advertising on the Internet.  We could end all starvation on the planet if people would stop turning food into motor fuel and stop feeding perfectly good grain to farm animals to produce meat.  There is no shortage of food in the world, just a flaw in how that food is used and distributed to the poor.  Instead of clicking on annoying questions and being tortured with advertising, people ought to change the way the world is run and make it a better place where so many people don’t have to die of starvation while perfectly good food rots or is thrown away.