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Ignore Alien Orders Salute You in Your Grave Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 2026	February 27th, 2007 at 09:20am i searched a bunch of times to see if there's already a thread addressing this issue as a whole, and there didn't seem to be. if i was wrong/blind and there is then sorry...anyway. world hunger is a huge issue.. for example, in darfur there are millions of refugees who are practically starving to death despite the efforts of groups such as the World Food Programme [WFP] and Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontiers [MSF]. but it's not just in third world countries and places torn by civil wars such as darfur--it's right here at home, especially in the bigger cities. programs and organizations such as Food Not Bombs are all over the world--there are probably chapters quite close to you. hunger isn't something a lot of people think about as a world issue but more as a personal thing, like if you skip lunch--but it's something you could die slowly from, especially children and the infirm. so what do you think about world hunger? how do you think we can help, first on a global level but also on a local level? do you think that there really is enough food to sustain us all, but just some of it is being wasted? there are a lot of facets to world hunger and i think it's a very important topic that deserves more attention than it's getting.
bloodredruby69 Banned Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 8293	February 27th, 2007 at 03:13pm There are millions of possible ways to help allieviate World Hunger, though all woud appear to involve time and money that others just don't want to spend on anyone but themselves. Couple that reluctance with the fact that there is no way to totally erradicate World Hunger, and that it is impossible to always feed all, and people have more than enough reason to do nothing about it. Or at least, in their minds they do. (Btw, you might want to change the topic title to World Hunger. When I read just Hunger I thought it was some dumb noob post )
aliss practice. Shotgun Sinner Age: 102 Gender: - Posts: 8198	February 27th, 2007 at 04:30pm I think World Hunger is an serious issue that normal citizens simply don’t address properly. I am not say all, but a lot simply don’t care. I recently I did a 24 Hour Famine in aid for people in Zambia. I asked some of my friends for sponsors, and I told them why and who for. 2 boys and 1 girl said; ‘I don’t care, as long as I’m happy, I simply don’t care.’ How can you say that? How can you have the indecency to say such a bias and unreasonable incentive? How can you not care?
Ignore Alien Orders Salute You in Your Grave Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 2026	February 27th, 2007 at 04:45pm bloodredruby69: There are millions of possible ways to help allieviate World Hunger, though all woud appear to involve time and money that others just don't want to spend on anyone but themselves. Couple that reluctance with the fact that there is no way to totally erradicate World Hunger, and that it is impossible to always feed all, and people have more than enough reason to do nothing about it. Or at least, in their minds they do. (Btw, you might want to change the topic title to World Hunger. When I read just Hunger I thought it was some dumb noob post ) yeah you're pretty much right about it...i probably shouldn't try to post serious things when i'm not fully concious. anyway back on topic, here's some links i probably should have included in my first post: food not bombs world food programme doctors without borders food not bombs is very intriguing to me because one of their aims is to use food surplus from local shops [day old bread, vegetables that are nearing the expiration date/are slightly briused/etc] that is perfectly fine but that consumers don't want...and then they use that in feeding the local hungry. it's also pretty easy to help out with, i'm trying to get a group of kids from my town to head out to one of the nearer chapters to help out. and there are tons of chapters all over the place so it's not too difficult to help out with.
the.sound.of.black Jazz Hands Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 281	February 28th, 2007 at 03:23am We can only do so much for world hunger...the issue is simply not a shortage of food, it goes deeper than that. Believe me there is enough food to feed everyone in this world. The governments in is these countries obviously have major issues, from corruption to debt. We can sponser all the kids we want to, but preventing the cause of world hunger is the way to go. You will find that many people in Africa have been driven out of the mountains, their homes, where food was plentiful, and they have been forced to live in places that you see on tv. They can't grow crops...because there is no where to grow them so they have to buy their food which they can't do if they have no money. Like I said it is a complex issue that we can't solve...but we can help.
karah Killjoy Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 14	February 28th, 2007 at 08:05pm Eyeliner Whore.: I think World Hunger is an serious issue that normal citizens simply don’t address properly. I am not say all, but a lot simply don’t care. I recently I did a 24 Hour Famine in aid for people in Zambia. I asked some of my friends for sponsors, and I told them why and who for. 2 boys and 1 girl said; ‘I don’t care, as long as I’m happy, I simply don’t care.’ How can you say that? How can you have the indecency to say such a bias and unreasonable incentive? How can you not care? i believe it. i've heared kids say that to me too. its horrible how little people care. i was really happy to see this topic and those links are awesome. we all get so caught up in our own problems sometimes we need to step back and look at the bigger picture.
xxmcrxfreekxx Killjoy Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 90	July 5th, 2007 at 02:07am I think that America is hogging too much food. In America, we can be anywhere in the country and stores will always have food for us. No offense, but there are a lot of fat people in America. Even when people are full, they think to themselves, 'I'm full but I don't feel like wasting that food.'. But, in reality, they are wasting food that someone poor starving person could be eating.
dont stop. Salute You in Your Grave Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 4290	July 5th, 2007 at 07:20pm xxmcrxfreekxx: I think that America is hogging too much food. In America, we can be anywhere in the country and stores will always have food for us. No offense, but there are a lot of fat people in America. Even when people are full, they think to themselves, 'I'm full but I don't feel like wasting that food.'. But, in reality, they are wasting food that someone poor starving person could be eating. That is true. America eats a lot. I've been to Colombia which has cities and is quite normal... Sorta reminds me of New York city. There's a lot of real food. Not fast food like mcdonalds and wendys. It's time america did something about the obesity in this country. See, it's funny because; Thousands of people in other coutries die of hunger, but in america thousands of people die of weight related problems.
Fezzik Salute You in Your Grave Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 2748	July 5th, 2007 at 07:31pm America doesn't really "hog" food. It's not like we're taking it away from people. We're just a developed nation, so we have food readily available whenever we want it, and most Americans have unhealthy eating habits. But it's not as though we could clear the scraps off American tables and send them over to Africa. We need to send over people who can teach un/undereducated people better ways to grow their food and manage livestock.
geradsredskittle666 Really Not Okay Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 610	July 9th, 2007 at 01:48pm Eat the rich..or make it rain skittles....lol
Ignore Alien Orders Salute You in Your Grave Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 2026	July 9th, 2007 at 04:28pm Fezzik: America doesn't really "hog" food. It's not like we're taking it away from people. We're just a developed nation, so we have food readily available whenever we want it, and most Americans have unhealthy eating habits. But it's not as though we could clear the scraps off American tables and send them over to Africa. We need to send over people who can teach un/undereducated people better ways to grow their food and manage livestock. Actually the way in which we produce our food really is a way of hogging it. If anyone's ever read anything by Daniel Quinn, feel free to elaborate cause I'm sure I'll destroy this explanation, but the way I understand it... Availability of food increases population: when you have more food, you have more of a population, and this goes for any animal on the planet. Each year food production goes up, and people say that we need to keep increasing food production to feed the starving millions, both in the third world and right here, in developed nations. However the food surpluses don't go to feed the starving millions- they go to feed the ever-growing population. The heart of the issue really is distribution. If we choose to use a method of agriculture that we control completely, then we are not only in charge of production, but of distribution. Basically what I'm saying is that we do hog food, but less on the individual level than as a society...however our individual habits with food obviously do need some work.

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