A video game that teaches battling hunger, not people.

• Author: Rosenberg, Tina
• Position: OPINION - United Nations' World Food Program's Food Force - Brief Article

Last April, the UN World Food Program introduced Food Force, a computer video game to teach children about global hunger. One of a new category of peace games, it has become the most unlikely of cult sensations. No one shoots anyone in Food Force'. Rebels are negotiated with, not blown away. Yet it has become the second most downloaded free Internet game, after the Army's recruiting tool, America's Army. The game is this: A fictional island has been ravaged by drought and civil war; millions of people need food. The player must airdrop food from a C-D0...