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Bite of the Day: Eating for Free? We’re In!

Wait, I think we got it wrong. At least it was for a good cause.

On FreeRice.com, for each word you get right, they donate 20 grams of rice throughout the UN World Food Program to help end hunger. It sounds easy enough. On the homepage, after you choose by highlighting a definition to word that is offered as the mechanism to move people to action any way they can, a total of 130, 345, 500 grains of rice…Yesterday!

On the FAQ page, a question reads:

How does playing the vocabulary game at FreeRice help me?

Why would anyone need more of a reason to play this simple word game, then to end world hunger. Well, what borderline offensive reasons would they put up to entice people to participate?

• Sell yourself, your services, and your products better
• Be more effective and successful at your job

And when you finally read down bulletined answers and blurbs of confidence, “about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children.” Maybe it’s just me. 25,000 people, or…increased degree of productivity. Hmm. Wait, ah Intent:

daddy? nah.

couch? nope.

gorge? tough.

purpose? purpose.
Correct!

On the bottom of the screen, ads? Freerice.com advertises?

“These ads pay for your donated rice.” I just donated 20 grains of rice, today. I think.