{"id":571741,"date":"2023-02-25T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T02:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=571741"},"modified":"2023-02-25T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T02:35:06","slug":"un-chronicle-the-benefits-of-world-hunger-by-george-kent-originally-published-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=571741","title":{"rendered":"UN Chronicle &#8212; The Benefits of World hunger by George Kent &#8212; originally published ~2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/zKzzH\">https:\/\/archive.ph\/zKzzH<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UN Deleted this article and removed it from the internet &#8212; they tried to portray it as satire &#8212; the author disagrees:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211128214718\/https:\/www.un.org\/en\/chronicle\/article\/benefits-world-hunger\">revived article<\/a>\u00a0written by now-retired UH professor George Kent was written for the UN\u2019s digital magazine back in 2008 and went largely unnoticed for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cI never intended it as satire,\u201d<\/strong> <\/em>Kent who is now the deputy editor for \u201cWorld Nutrition\u201d magazine told\u00a0<em>Newsbusters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kent said he did not hope that it would be read as praise for hunger. \u201cMy main point was and still is that some people benefit from the existence of hunger in the world. That helps to explain why hunger is so persistent in many places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/archive.ph\/zKzzH UN Deleted this article and removed it from the internet &#8212; they tried to portray it as satire &#8212; the author disagrees: The\u00a0revived article\u00a0written by now-retired UH professor George Kent was written for the UN\u2019s digital magazine back in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=571741\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}