:rolleyes:

The money they spent designing the slick site could have been spent on rice.

Could have been donated.

Also, the site is, I believe, a tool to help bring attention to the cause. One must often spend money to make money.

Really? Let's test that theory. Send me a hundred and we'll see what happens.

Here ya go

Well would you look at that!



It worked!

What cause? World Hunger? If there is someone who has internet access and is unaware that world hunger is a problem, or doesn't currently care enough to be doing something about it other than clicking on an internet game, that person A) isn't going to stick around playing a vocabulary game for very long and B) isn't going to be suddenly motivated to search out ways to help. Sure, buried in the FAQ is a link to poverty.com, which itself isn't even a charity organization, though it does have links to actual info and places to help. But I can't imagine the number of people that aren't already doing something, AND go to freerice, AND bother to read the FAQ, AND click through to poverty.com AND click through from poverty.com to one of the other sites, AND take some sort of action having arrived at an actual charity/aid organization's site is going to be particularly high.

OK: it's a waste of time and money

It just seems silly. I'm all for bringing light to worthy causes, but I've seen so many of these "sit in front of your computer and click to save the world" gimmicks that I fear people will think they've actually DONE something by doing nothing and will be LESS motivated to actual action.

None of this matters. What matters is that I have a much bigger vocabulary than I realized.

Heh.

My vocabulary rocks. I, alone, will end world hunger.