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...source of water pollution. Growing the massive amount of corn needed to feed herds also means fertilizer and pesticide runoff in water supplies, and trucking feed and meat around the country is a big carbon emitter. Wen Bo, China program director with the NGO Pacific Environment, acknowledges that China's cattle industry needs modernization, but says slapping an American model onto the Chinese landscape won't work. "The situation in China is completely different," he says. "In many rural areas, they do not have the infrastructure for environmental treatment." To mitigate damage, Wen says, big companies and governments will need...
...woman and a Christian, I greatly enjoyed your story. Anyone familiar with helping the poor and desperate through missionary or NGO work, knows that, if done alone, it can take a lot out of you, physically and mentally. To read both about Mother Teresa's doubt and fears, as well as her total commitment, was truly inspiring. Lee Ying, Singapore...
...other companies around the globe raise an interesting question: might businesses be better at aid than traditional NGOs and charities? There's reason to suppose they might be. After all, businesses the size of Merck are capable of marshaling greater medical expertise and more resources than any one NGO, and they are obsessed with results and efficiency...
Merck's partner in ACHAP, the Gates Foundation, has ruffled many NGO feathers by imposing the same standards of accountability and transparency used by business on projects it funds - and cutting off those who don't comply. "There's been a paradigm shift in how people view the potential contribution of the private sector," says Dr. Nick Hellman, who made an inspection of ACHAP in August on behalf of the Gates Foundation. "They have the knowledge and the experience. Most drug companies have specific programs geared toward global health issues. If you're trying to distribute drugs...
...problem is we've gone straight to the top. We are essentially, as some argue, farming tigers when we raise tuna or striped bass or cod," says Brian Halweil, a senior researcher with WorldWatch, a Washington-based environmental NGO. By contrast, the fish species at the core of the millennia-long tradition of fish-farming in Asia and parts of Africa - catfish, carp and milkfish - actually require less fish input than is ultimately harvested, because they are herbivorous or omnivorous. In Asia, the idea of feeding several times more fishmeal to get one pound back would seem sheer folly. "Ultimately...