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U.N. Creates Video Game To Educate On World Hunger
from the fun-with-food dept
Ah, those crazy kids. They love the video games, so of course they'll also love a PC/Mac video game that subtly teaches them about world hunger. That's what the United Nations hopes will happen with the free release of "Food Force," a game that was developed by the U.N.'s World Food Programme. We're always skeptical of bureaucrats who co-opt new media for transparent purposes. People -- especially kids -- tend to see right through them. But you never know. The success of "America's Army" shows that if done well, a government-esque game can succeed regardless of its ulterior motives.
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Help Slim Down The Fat Babies of Africa
What if "world hunger" is relatively rare, just a PR conspiracy cooked up by agri-businesses and fast food chains? Who could not feel sorry for TV images of starving babies in Africa? Who could question the notion that we should produce more food, produced by good Christian farmers out to save the world?
The Peace Corps and other relief organizations have very high drop-out rates, like 80%, because the idealistic young people who join realize that the camps are nothing like what they imagined. The camps are full of greedy louts who try to trick relief workers out of everything, playing on guilt trips. The louts beat their women, don't value education, don't give a shit about human rights or the environment.
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I wonder if players get bonus points for taking bribes and raping the locals.
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