Jelena- Joylo's small arms move with immense rapdity as he nosisily devours a chicken-like dish.
"It's mostly just about fine details, all of this," says Joylo. "We've got a delicate tightrope to balance, between helping these people and not oppressing others. Of course, the Galaxy is producing enough food to feed the Galaxy but... it's never as simple as that. It's getitng the food to the right place at the right time. Now, we want to make that easier, but of course the Senate doesn't produce any food at all, and it is hardly as if Coruscant is farmland. Food is privately grown and owned in the Republic by sovereign worlds, and we cannot force them to hand it over. That's licensed piracy, even assuming it would survive a vote, which it would not. So it is all about a system that encourages food to flow where it is needed."
Andro- you end up on a similar subject (you and Jelena have picked people who are on different sides of the same issue)
She says a very similar thing about how the problem is not production, but distribution.
"And in the end, not enough people care to do anything about it," she says. "These planets don't show up in current events much and their voting strength in the Senate is tiny. It's taken a crisis of this proportion to get any decent debate done about it at all, which I suppose the Synod is in part responsible for. Frankly, the charities that I represent are a drop in the ocean. This situation needs extremely extensive Government intervention, and very, very quickly. People are dying already."