Re:Well, that sounded extremely patronizing. (Score 1)

Bolivia is poor but that is different from staving. There are a lot of substance farmers in Bolivia. They will be poor, but they do usually have food. Bolivia isn't as poor as the US by some metrics. There are 11 million people in Bolivia (only half in poverty), there are 45 million people living in poverty in the USA, ergo the USA has more poverty than Bolivia. Many poor in Bolivia have a subsistence farm with chickens, few of those in poverty in the US already have a subsistence farm with chickens. Sure, they would have accepted the chicken, heck if someone gave me a free chicken I would probably accept it and I have plenty of wealth and income in a country with plenty of wealth. Its not like rejecting this gift the chickens are wasted, they will be redistributed to areas and countries that do want and need them. That is not a bad thing. I don't think more chickens is going to lift Bolivia out of its poverty. It has chickens. It needs the next stage, education, industry jobs, mechanised farming etc. However, plenty of African countries could lift themselves to Bolivian levels of poverty, which is much better than where they are now. The Bolivians may have low levels of wealth, but they have made real progress in improving. Malnutrition is way down, still a concern as it is in any country with a lot of subsistence farming, but much better than even 8 years ago. Not every country is going to be improved by chickens. However with a project like this if the worst thing that happens is some politicians are mildly insulted that is fairly easy to fix.