UN responds to Elon Musk challenge with US$6.6B plan to fight world hunger

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The head of the UN's food agency has responded to Tesla founder Elon Musk's ask for a plan to tackle world hunger with a US$6.6 billion ask.

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The United Nations’ World Food Programme has responded to Tesla founder Elon Musk’s ask for a plan to tackle world hunger with a US$6.6-billion pitch.

On Monday, the executive director of the UN agency unveiled a plan on Twitter after Musk, one of the world’s richest men, challenged him on the social media platform late last month.

“This hunger crisis is urgent, unprecedented, AND avoidable,” tweeted David Beasley. “@elonmusk, you asked for a clear plan & open books. Here it is! We’re ready to talk with you – and anyone else – who is serious about saving lives.”

The plan involves an ask for the world’s wealthiest people to fund a US$6.6-billion initiative to help “save 42 million people from famine” next year, the World Food Programme said on its website.

In its pitch, the UN agency said US$3.5 billion would be used to purchase and deliver food, US$2 billion would go towards cash and food vouchers, US$700 million would be earmarked for countries to design and implement food programs, and US$400 million would ensure proper management of global and regional operations, administration and accountability.

“The world is on fire. I’ve been warning about the perfect storm brewing due to Covid, conflict, climate shocks & now, rising supply chain costs,” Beasley tweeted. “IT IS HERE. 45M lives are at stake—and increasing daily. If you don’t feed people, you feed conflict, destabilization & mass migration.”

Musk has yet to respond on Twitter, but on Oct. 31 said in a tweet that if the World Food Programme could describe how US$6 billion would help solve world hunger, he’d “sell Tesla stock right now and do it.”

Musk’s challenge was in response to a CNN story in which Beasley said the world’s richest people could help solve world hunger, and called out Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Sounds similar to the one I linked; their meals are rice + soy + dried vegetables + vitamins. I think it's a different group because they mixed everything into one bag with like half a dozen servings in it though, they didn't keep the dried vegetables separate like they're making a nicer instant noodle pack or something.

No idea about their mission regarding hunger vs malnourishment, but I remember seeing somewhere in the documentation that they do not donate to Americans, and the justification is that they've tried but poor Americans are too picky and will reject the meals. (imagine an angry guy screaming about how nobody really starves to death in America because if you throw your dignity away you can panhandle for a bigmac).

Yeah, sounds like the same general meals but the ones we were making were definitely for Americans I think. If not someone messed up because I've gotten the exact same meals from some of the churches I have went to for food pantries over the past two years now.

I'd believe them on poor Americans being too picky though. The amount of people who I have met who claim to be starving but absolutely refuse to go to any of the food pantries or churches I know about because "the food isn't any good" is really astonishing. Especially when I learned between going to and volunteering at these churches that they have no real requirements or standards for people to take food because they never have enough of a demand to use it all up.

 

[Iron Hamster]

Look Elon, we need 6 Billion to end world hunger, here's our plan on how we'll use your 6.6 Billion USD, we'll start with spending 3.5 Billion on delivering food and err..... the rest is "cash and vouchers and err some for us to keep.

lol, so vague.

Agreed. The semantic game they're playing looks worse than not responding. No doubt Musk means 'open books' after money is distributed. Until then, there are no books to open.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

Lmao they actually took the bait.

They didn't even get the point. I'd bet my left nut those kikes are just trying to grift some Elon musk bucks.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

They said END world hunger not fight...

But "END" would require them to accomplish something. "Fight" is something they can drag out forever with no results but a never-ending demand for more money.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Gotta give the win to the memelord on this one. This plan is garbage and wouldn't "solve" anything, which was exactly his point.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Gotta give the win to the memelord on this one. This plan is garbage and wouldn't "solve" anything, which was exactly his point.

The problem is, WFP has proven to us that Elon won, but how many people are just going to read the headlines and see that they presented their plan and Musk reneged? The article itself didn't even specify they're only feeding people one meal a day, I had to follow the source to find that out...

Fuck the MSM.

 

[Shroom King]

We all know that if it was places like Iceland and Norway that had food shortages, the UN would tell them to get fucked and find their own food. Fuck the UN.