&quot;To save a child from malnutrition costs only $10 per year.&quot;<p>This reminds me of jokes I&#x27;ve heard where pretty much everything (no mater how absurd) could be made looking better or worse depending on the frame of reference which (as you&#x27;d probably guessed) was involving those poor starving children. On a more serious note, the starving children are such an effective demagogic ammunition, aren&#x27;t they? Almost too convenient to completely eradicate!