If you haven't heard, there is a food emergency in our world. There are 40 countries on the verge of political unheaval due to this food crisis. Haiti has been making the news because they are experiencing the terror of not being able to find food. Food for their pleading children, food for their next meal. A kilo of rice, which is a little more than 1/2 lb, is going for $30.
Hunger effects the rate of disease, death, political crisis (war), and terrorism. If you are hungry, you can't learn, you can't work, and you lose hope.
The irony is, there is a different battle in the devoloped world...obesity. The rate of obesity just went above the number of those who are starving.
We have the means to end hunger. The financial costs to end hunger are relatively slight. The United Nations Development Program estimates that the basic health and nutrition needs of the world's poorest people could be met for an additional $13 billion a year. Animal lovers in the United States and Europe spend more than that on pet food each year.
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This is so sad. I know that we throw out food every day. Why aren't we doing anything about it? I feel so helpless and small sometimes. The thought of hungry people (especially hungry children) makes my heart ache.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ~Ghandi
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