It boggles my mind to know there are still people starving to death in our world. When I see all the food thrown away from fast food joints and other restaurants it makes me angry. I’m sure there are reasons, not being allowed to give away old food and such, but I still feel like all the waste couple with the people starving warrants a further look into the situation. This is an especially concerning topic in my eyes since I live in the United States, a country overflowing with child obesity.
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
But another one billion people on the planet are still hungry.
Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin will co-host an international conference on world hunger with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is among the high-profile figures from up to 190 countries invited to the event in New York next month.
It will be interesting to hear what they have to say about world hunger, but more than anything I hope they present with solutions.
Freedom from Hunger is the anti-hunger organization that empowers very poor women with a proven combination of micro-finance and education.
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It is a pretty sad state of affairs that we live in a country suffering from obesity while others (even some here in the U.S.) can’t get enough to eat in a single day.