The statistic that surprised me the most was the one that that said 11 million children die before their fifth birthday, each year. That is about a third of Canada's population, and approximately the same size as Ontario's population. Thats huge. Every day about seven times the amount of kids in our school die before they really get to experience life. These kids will never get to go to grade school, middle school, high school, or college. They won't experience adollesence, teenhood, or adulthood. Also they won't be able to skateboard, ride a bike, drive a car, read, write, play sports, play music, basically everthing you do for fun and things you can not wait for.
Do you know how old age five is? It is kindergarden. Kindergardeners dying every day. For what? because they were born into a poor country? Because our goverbment won't pay a little more money to help? Our government spends 17 billion dollars a year for pet food, and 19 billion dollars a year is what is needed to save these children. How stupid is that.
Our pets can survive on leftovers and scraps, yet we spend all this money on them when children are dying every day. Pets. So to our government pets are more important than lives. Lives that haven't experienced their full potential, not even close to their full potential. They are brought into this world to suffer and starve and then die before age five. If we would spend that money we would stop all this. We would let these chlidren live their lives. Think about it.
houdini, this is great! I love the reasoning and comparing you used. what a scary statistic... i love this post. :)(L)
ReplyDeleteThis really caught my attention, all those statistics. It was really convincing
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ReplyDeleteHoudini, this is a great first post. Your writing is focused on one main idea throughout and the thought you put into the post is evident. Be careful when discussing statistics that you don't misquote them. It is not the government that is spending 17 million on pet food. We the citizens of North America and Europe spend 17 billion of our own dollars on pet food, the government has nothing to do with this decision. Solid first post.
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