A Salute to Fathers by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
For Father’s Day, MSF celebrates the fathers who are involved in caring for their family’s health.
For Father’s Day, MSF celebrates the fathers who are involved in caring for their family’s health.
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Sanda Georgescu
They are mothers and fathers and they want and have the right to see their children happy and safe!
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Annick-Berthe Ndawana
happy fathers day to all the father out there and the father at heart......
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Usama Zubair
In 2012 a report released by the Stockholm International Water Institute stated that: “With 70% of all available water being in agriculture, growing more food to feed an additional 2 billion people by 2050 will place greater pressure on available water and land.” The report also said: “Nine hundred million people already go hungry and 2 billion people are malnourished in spite of the fact that per capita food production continues to increase.” A recent United Nations study suggests that “a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change.” According to the research lead article "Livestock and Climate Change" published by Worldwatch institute, animal agriculture accounts for 51% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gases, more than all the transport(13%) in the world and any other contributing factor combined.
Consumption of animal products does not merely use resources, it depletes them. Sustaining a meat, dairy and egg-eating culture requires at least 17 times more land, 14 times more water, and from 10 to 20 times more consumption of fossil fuels and other energy sources, than would be required to sustain a purely vegan culture of the same size. Cattle consume nearly ten per cent of the world’s freshwater resources directly, and eighty per cent of all farmland is devoted to livestock raising. It’s terribly inefficient and it may require 100 to 400 times the amount of water to produce a pound of meat as it would for a pound of a much higher nutritional value of plant-based foods. Raising animals for food requires so much water that you could leave your shower on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and not consume more water than someone consuming meat. The land used to grow crops to feed livestock is 10 times what is needed to grow crops for human consumption. Face this fact: Even if 100% of all the land on the six inhabited continents were used for agriculture (including the Sahara desert, Greenland, etc.), and even if that land were as productive as U. S. agricultural land, there would still not be enough land to feed the world population if our diet continues to comprise of animal products. There is not the slightest possibility that the rest of the world will ever be brought "up" to the United States’ destructive standard diet; the resources simply aren’t there. even maintaining a small minority of the world’s citizens on the typical U.S diet will not be possible for very much longer. If resources are not conserved, everyone in the long run may be equal but starve. And in fact, what promotes social injustice in the first place? Owners of large tracts of land who are using that land to promote livestock or animal-based consumption for the elite. Regardless of social system, any country — rich or poor — that emphasizes or maintains animal-based food production is making its food situation, and that of the world, substantially worse.
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Consumption of animal products does not merely use resources, it depletes them. Sustaining a meat, dairy and egg-eating culture requires at least 17 times more land, 14 times more water, and from 10 to 20 times more consumption of fossil fuels and other energy sources, than would be required to sustain a purely vegan culture of the same size. Cattle consume nearly ten per cent of the world’s freshwater resources directly, and eighty per cent of all farmland is devoted to livestock raising. It’s terribly inefficient and it may require 100 to 400 times the amount of water to produce a pound of meat as it would for a pound of a much higher nutritional value of plant-based foods. Raising animals for food requires so much water that you could leave your shower on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and not consume more water than someone consuming meat. The land used to grow crops to feed livestock is 10 times what is needed to grow crops for human consumption. Face this fact: Even if 100% of all the land on the six inhabited continents were used for agriculture (including the Sahara desert, Greenland, etc.), and even if that land were as productive as U. S. agricultural land, there would still not be enough land to feed the world population if our diet continues to comprise of animal products. There is not the slightest possibility that the rest of the world will ever be brought "up" to the United States’ destructive standard diet; the resources simply aren’t there. even maintaining a small minority of the world’s citizens on the typical U.S diet will not be possible for very much longer. If resources are not conserved, everyone in the long run may be equal but starve. And in fact, what promotes social injustice in the first place? Owners of large tracts of land who are using that land to promote livestock or animal-based consumption for the elite. Regardless of social system, any country — rich or poor — that emphasizes or maintains animal-based food production is making its food situation, and that of the world, substantially worse.
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Billie-Jo Dreamsof Sunshine
Saw this video on Facebook this morning. I do not know how old it is but I was wondering if there was anyway your program might consider them for help. https://
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Nida Aqib
Hats off to MSF efforts n working all around the world. n salute for all the fathers out there.. God bless Fathers
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Tim Skonecki
I am sorry for your loss; yet, you folks make me so proud to be one part of this great adventure and understanding. God Bless!
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Ron-Joyce Merrett
These father's are to be congratulated and admired for their love and protection of their children. The lives they lead are beyond what any of of us can possibly imagine. Thanks to MSF for reminding us and for the wonderful work you do to help so many of these people.
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Rosanna Hile
Just as no woman will ever play a more important role in life, so these men are playing the most important role they will play in life, loving and raising their children. Good luck to all of them.
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Sadia Malick
Please help us with our cause. We would love to help out. Need 400 more signatures.
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Anna Mcdonald
This makes me want to help in these contries but I have a little one (special needs ) who needs my help very much so.But happy fathers day to those loving fathers.
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Delyth Amos
So difficult for these dad's to keep their little ones safe - I pray that in these camps the children are kept safe from all harmful influences!!
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Hina Habib
Doctor without borders is like a father 2 all of us..always caring for us n totally free of cost 
n i must solute to all of these fathers shown in pic...
n i must solute to all of these fathers shown in pic...8 yrsReport
