I don't hate science. And there's plenty of money to feed the hungry without taking it from science. The churches have it.

So the inference is we should stop all science or national defense projects to feed the world's hungry? My question is with all the money spent and collected by things as food aid concerts where has that gotten us???
I would also ask if one wants to feed another perhaps one should ask how many generations of a family has been getting food aid? One major problem with giving food is distribution. Usually food is distributed to one place and people come to that place and eventually settle there as they cannot grow their own. So we are basically creating human feed lots. What we desperately need is not more food but more family planning services. I support one such organization EngenderHealth. [engenderhealth.org] This is the only viable and 'humane' way of alleviating starvation in the world. Pro-action not more, useless reaction.

The budget for these projects is NOTHING compared to what the U.S. spends on the military industrial complex, I get the point but it is NOT a lack of money, it bad priorities. Our government feeds the industrial complex and the wealthy everyone else gets crumbs.
Sadly we continue to elect officials that promote the sort of government spending that keeps people poor, hungry and ill.

People often make the point of "Do you know how many people could be fed for the cost of ......(name your program)?" NASA/JPL is less then 15 minutes from here and I assure you that everyone who works there uses their salary to buy food, housing, education, etc. The money is shared by everyone who works in science/space/development and all the myriad other jobs associated with these programs. What could we do? Buy "Happy Meals" for all the hungry in the world and then go home? Science, learning how to farm Mars (for example) can provide solutions for hunger in the Sahara. It really does ''trickle down.''

Spending on space is easily some of the most cost effective spending government does, it's improved our daily lives in countless ways, and benefited agriculture and other sciences that feed people. It's the staggering amounts of money being pissed away on war, weapons, and fossil fuel subsidies that not only is a staggering waste of resources that could help people, it's actually causing starvation and poverty worldwide. Spending on space science is not only a minuscule fraction of that wasteful spending; it's helping, not hurting.