I'm on freerice.com, where you're asked questions, and for every correct answer they donate 20grains of rice to end world hunger, I was wondering how many people think this is real, &also how many grains of rice an average person would eat in 1meal?
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kliederbugel
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My friends tell me that its fake, but I still do it anyways. Besides, my vocabulary needs the help.
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This site is entirely legitimate. The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program to 78 countries around the world. The food is paid for by the advertisers you see listed at the bottom of the page, the more users, the more rice is provided. http://www.freerice.com/
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I agree it's a little weird, but rice has to get paid somehow too, and maybe people don't get enough funds or advocates. Seriously I thought this was a joke at first, but seems real enough to me now. They must have disclaimers and stuff. And I don't think they just eat the rice just like that, they probably mix it with other things or make things with it whatever. I guess it's kind of like potatoes over here how you can do almost anything with them, whatever the case I'm guessing it's a necessity for them that they need it to make much of anything that doesn't cost too much. They probably have less choices or methods, but I certainly hope that my increasing vocabulary will be put to good use, like feeding people, and not only showing off on Answerbag with funky new words. XD
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It's true - http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/freerice.asp As for the amount of rice (from http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34814/117/ March 20, 2008 post): "After a few minutes of research, I leaned that a cup of rice contains just over 7000 grains (about 7250). Because rice expands to three times its original size when it is cooked, this would equal three cups. A bowl of rice is probably equal to 1.5 cups (if you think its more that that, its probably because you live in America, where the portion sizes are astronomical). According to freerice.com, there have been 23,202,482,290 grains of rice donated as of 3/19/2008. So, about 6,400,684.8 bowls of rice have been donated thus far. That is enough to feed one bowl of rice to about a quarter of Nepal's total population."
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