Starvation - The Crime of Our Time
A recent BBC article starkly highlights the largest problem of our time: starvation. In the western world, we rarely, if ever, go hungry. We see food as something that can be bought in supermarkets. We don’t often see it as a cut-throat market where more or less anything goes.
In a world where many people are starving, and where the majority of the population lives on a pittance, the western nations routinely over-produce and dump food in order to keep the market prices high. If the food that we produce were evenly distributed over the entire population of the world, everybody would have enough to eat.
So instead of patting ourselves on the back about what a great job we’ve been doing invading Iraq and Afghanistan (and, incidentally, causing thousands - if not millions - of refugees who are now also starving, quite apart from the massive casualties), let’s take a good, long look at the way the world works right now, and how it can be changed for the better.
I seriously doubt whether either Clinton or Obama are going to care much about this issue. Of course, the simple fact that the US is in arrears to the UN and has a massive deficit will probably only serve to push the issue from the table.
Some things you can do now:
The Hunger Site - A daily click can save lives.
Free Rice - Feed the hungry, and improve your English.
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