Tampa Prep 2009-2010 Impact Defense File
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AT: Malnutrition1. Can’t solve it – it’s a lifestyle choice to eat healthy 2. Infections are the root cause of malnutrition not the planUlrich E. Schaible and Stefan H. E. Kaufmann. May 1, 2007. (Ulrich E. Schaible is at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Immunology Unit, London, United Kingdom. Stefan H. E. Kaufmann is at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Immunology, Berlin, Germany. PLoS Medicine. “Malnutrition and Infection: Complex Mechanisms and Global Impacts” http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040115#cor1)Infection itself contributes to malnutrition. The relationship of malnutrition on immune suppression and infection is complicated by the profound effects of a number of infections on nutrition itself. Examples of how infections can contribute to malnutrition are: (1) gastrointestinal infection can lead to diarrhea; (2) HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and other chronic infections can cause cachexia and anemia; and (3) intestinal parasites can cause anemia and nutrient deprivation [13]. Stimulation of an immune response by infection increases the demand for metabolically derived anabolic energy and associated substrates, leading to a synergistic vicious cycle of adverse nutritional status and increased susceptibility to infection. Under inflammatory conditions such as sepsis, mediators increase the catabolic disease state characterised by enhanced arginine use. Furthermore, arginase is induced during infection and uses up arginine as substrate. It has been suggested that depletion of this amino acid impairs T cell responses [14], and exceeding the body’s arginine production leads to a negative nitrogen balance [15]. 3. No timeframe to the impact – malnutrition has been around for a while, and we haven’t seen any big impacts 4. Too many barriers to solve malnutrition. The PLoS Medicine Editors Nov. 08 (Public Library of Science “Scaling Up International Food Aid: Food Delivery Alone Cannot Solve the Malnutrition Crisis”)Other proven malnutrition interventions must also be scaled up. For example, the Ending Child Hunger and Undernutrition Initiative, a global partnership started by UNICEF and the World Food Programme, is calling for the global scale-up of a range of “practical measures” [21]. These include health, hygiene, and nutrition education and promotion, micronutrient supplementation, household water treatment, hand washing, deworming, and “situation-specific household food security interventions” [21]. National and international development strategies and policies, together with political will and financing, are also required [22]. It will cost about $US8 billion a year to assist 100 million families to protect their children from hunger and malnutrition [21]—and yet current donor spending on programs to reduce undernutrition is only about $US250–$US300 million annually [23]. AT: Mexico Collapse1. Drug wars collapse Mexico. The San Diego Union Tribune 7/9/00 “A special report” Lexis [ev] Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo describes narcotics trafficking as the greatest threat to Mexico's national security. A report produced by his own government warned that increasingly powerful drug cartels threaten Mexico's political stability and, if left unchecked, could render Mexico ungovernable. Something close to that is already happening a mere 20 miles from downtown San Diego, just across the border in Tijuana: Two police chiefs assassinated by drug traffickers in six years, dozens of prosecutors and police investigators killed and a murder rate at least seven times that of San Diego. For the past decade, the Arellano Felix Organization, the most violent drug cartel in Mexico, has waged this deadly war against the rule of law. The cartel has proved itself stronger than the Mexican government in the Tijuana-Mexicali-Ensenada triangle that is the Arellanos' base territory. Mexican officials estimate that the Tijuana cartel provides at least 15 percent of the entire U.S. cocaine supply, a share representing 45 tons or more of cocaine a year. That's nearly a ton of cocaine every week shoved across our borders by the Arellano organization. 2. Rising corn prices are draining the government budget. Prairie Pundit 4/18/08 “Half baked energy policy food for thought” Lexis [ev] The Mexican government knows corn's price is politically sensitive. In January 2007, StrategyPage.com published the following short commentary: "Mexican authorities are concerned that a rise in the price of tortillas will lead to civil unrest. The price of tortillas rose 10 to 14 percent in 2006. The cause: international demand for corn." Mexico planned to import "duty free" several hundred thousand tons of corn to stabilize prices. Corn prices continue to climb, this month hitting an all-time high of six dollars a bushel, up 30 percent since then end of 2007. Take the all-time high, however, with a dose of mathematics. The Iowa Corn Growers Association argues that the $3.20 a bushel of 1981 would be around eight bucks today. 3. Collapse inevitable – Mexican oil running fry. Worldpress.org 4/25/06 “Mexico: Oil Depletion and Illegal U.S. Immigration” http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/2326.cfm [ev] Mexico's oil industry is, in large part, a direct reflection of the country's economic well-being. As those who have been following global oil output are aware, production in Mexico has started to wane, and just might decline very rapidly. 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