Comments for Is FreeRice.com making $150k each day in profits?

I play this game quite often and have never questioned its donations. It seems to me like people here stopped talking about "7 months and 22 days ago" but I was just wondering if you guys ever came to a conclusion...either way I think ill still play because good coems of it. Oh and for anybody who cares this site is giving out money to charities...its a contest though =/http://www.natnalex.com/prizes/

"Does FreeRice make any money from doing this? Is FreeRice a non-profit organization?

FreeRice does not make any money from this. FreeRice is simply a website committed to the cause of ending hunger around the world. While it is not a registered non-profit organization, FreeRice is run entirely for free and at no profit. All money (100%) raised by the site goes to the UN World Food Program to help feed the hungry. Sponsors make all payments to the UN World Food Program directly. "

- From the FAQ on FreeRice.

I have no idea if he is making money or not. I sure know that the Bank, Investment, Big Three, etc guys are !!!!.

I think FreeRice is an awesome programme, I play it every night, and now the new subjects are making it even more fun. I volunteer a lot, put something in the FoodBank box EVERY time I shop, and several charities regularly hit my bank account. So please don't tell me I'm wasting my time by trying to help people in a faraway land.

You should find something constructive to do with YOUR time. Your local hospital, Food Bank, or Insane Asylum is looking for volunteers. maybe not the last one, they'd never let you out.

i want to help the needy

What is being overlooked: If the folks involved with this charity are providing rice that is not locally bought, they are likely making the problem of hunger worse in the long term. Many organizations have made this mistake and I'm continually surprised to see the mistake made again and again by new charities that arise. In a nutshell: By providing free non-local rice, the price of rice on the local market is driven down to compete. In time, local rice farmers will not be able to support themselves, and often are then out of work (including people who's job depend on the local rice farming). Now you have more deeply impoverished and hungry people. Worse, now you have a society that is even less able to create food for itself and has a weaker local economy overall (more poverty=more hunger) because of the loss and general disruption the "market flooding" the free food created. Ultimately, if freerice.com is committed to combating hunger, the best way to do so is to nurture domestic/local economies, and history has shown that flooding a market with free food will only undermine/weaken them. Admittedly, freerice.com says that they "buy local rice, when possible" but we don't know exactly how much of an effort they make and how much of that rice indeed is local. I've looked all through the web, but until I find out how much of that rice is local, I won't feel comfortable going to freerice.com. Ultimately, I'm ABSOLUTELY not saying that freerice.com should stop, but that they have to make sure that their rice is local (w/rare exception) so they don't cause more damage than they do good.