" There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them, unless it is in the form of bread."
-Mahatma Ghandi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3337cj4sJQ | I remember, not to long ago, I watched a video that one of my Facebook friends shared on her page. I cannot put to words how terrible I felt after watching the video. The content of this video broke my heart. It was about a small village in Haiti who are so food scarce that they've actually learned to eat mud. MUD! The elderly women in the village prepare these little cookies, if you can even call them that, out of very fine mud that they let sit in water for a few days. After a few days of the mud sitting in the water, they remove the fine mud and let it air dry in the sun in shapes of bread or cookies. |
Geophagy has become a norm for human consumption...
I've always heard about people's desire to end world hunger. All these activist groups and celebrities running charities, but I've always wondered what it really takes to end world hunger, and why do some people even go hungry? Is it really as simple as if you're in poverty you are food insecure, or somehow someway do other factors weigh into why some people have so much while others struggle to even find some crumbs?
I want to further my knowledge on why this is happening in the world. Is world hunger a terrible symptom of world poverty?
Therefore my Line of Inquiry for this topic is Why doesn't the malnourished countries and the "Countries who have it all" adjust their income to share with all? Why can't other countries help out? Does this cause the other countries to become food insecure as well? Why does food insecurity target specific countries and is food insecurity actually caused by natural disasters?
By researching this topic I hope to understand world hunger and also to inform some of my fellow classmates and college students about this problem. This is an issue i would like people of all ages to focus on as well.
Some of the preconceived ideas I have about this topic is that America, and other large and in charge countries, somewhat hog most of the food and keep it here to ourselves. America is one of the fattest countries on the planet.... Obesity is on the raise here. We have so much food here that we actually waste it.
<p>Anup Shah, <a href="http://www.globalissues.org/issue/6/world-hunger-and-poverty">World Hunger and Poverty</a>, <cite>Global Issues</cite>, Updated: August 22, 2010</p>
http://www.cagle.com/2013/09/hunger-and-iphones/
I want to further my knowledge on why this is happening in the world. Is world hunger a terrible symptom of world poverty?
Therefore my Line of Inquiry for this topic is Why doesn't the malnourished countries and the "Countries who have it all" adjust their income to share with all? Why can't other countries help out? Does this cause the other countries to become food insecure as well? Why does food insecurity target specific countries and is food insecurity actually caused by natural disasters?
By researching this topic I hope to understand world hunger and also to inform some of my fellow classmates and college students about this problem. This is an issue i would like people of all ages to focus on as well.
Some of the preconceived ideas I have about this topic is that America, and other large and in charge countries, somewhat hog most of the food and keep it here to ourselves. America is one of the fattest countries on the planet.... Obesity is on the raise here. We have so much food here that we actually waste it.
<p>Anup Shah, <a href="http://www.globalissues.org/issue/6/world-hunger-and-poverty">World Hunger and Poverty</a>, <cite>Global Issues</cite>, Updated: August 22, 2010</p>
http://www.cagle.com/2013/09/hunger-and-iphones/