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Originally Posted by Inferno
So because there's young children dieing from lack of clean drinking water around the world we shouldn't care when crap like this happens to animals? Just because you don't see threads everyday on here talking about those children doesn't mean we don't feel any less sympathy for them.
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Personally, I think the unnecessary deaths from preventable disease, famine and clean drinking water should be the head story of every news channel each and every day. Every single day 25,000 children under the age of 5 die from diseases like diarrhea from bad drinking water. I do think our priorities are screwed up. The cat lady sparks world-wide outrage, but 25,000 kids each and every day passes without a second thought. We should be outraged, but for some reason most are not. I hear a lot of "that's just the way it is". But if there was as much attention and ire given to third world poverty as there is to these animal cruelty cases, maybe that wouldn't be the way it is.
http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/learn
Obviously I don't scoff at animal cruelty. It needs to be dealt with. I'm just irked that there isn't the same kind of vitriol saved for the powers that be that refuse to act on the issue you mentioned. On a personal level, I have two foster children via Plan Canada and give to the makepovertyhistory.ca which is partnered with Oxfam and other anti-poverty organizations. But there is only so much you can do on as an individual.