Friday, October 17, 2008
World Hunger
What's funny is there are so many people who have nice things, have a house over their head, have food and water and etc. while there are so many other kids who are starving. It's sad because most kids who do have these values abuse and don't realize how blessed they are. There are kids who would kill to have the things we do. When you see on the commercials people who are starving and they ask to give money; most people don't even stop to really think about it. Put yourself in their positions, if you were starving wouldn't you want someone to give you something. Poverty is such a terrible thing, and most people sometimes don't have that choice they are just born in to poverty. What if the world didn't have to suffer this? Sitting here trying to trace back to where everything started and wondering if it started with the first person? Wouldn't it be nice to give people food and clothing and shelter, but not even enough money could do that. It's not fair how some people can't help that they are born in to it and have to suffer. Even thinking about it, it is really hard to come up with any solutions on how to solve this. There could be the solution of just not having money anymore so people could survive, but then again we do need that to hold some structure in life. So what can we do? Alot of people die everyday from this problem alot of it is from malnutrition. There are two types of malnutrition micronutrient deficiency and protein energy malnutrution. More than 50 million people suffer from this and the number keeps on growing. Most kids who suffer malnutrition can suffer up to 160 days of being sick plus may cause a life times of problems. The funny thing is the world DOES produce enough food to feed everyone, so if these people suffer and we have enough food to feed them why don't we? Every 3.6 seconds someone dies from hunger and about 15 million children die every year. Race has a big part to do with it to 46% African American, 40% are Latino, and only 16% of whites starve. Most of the starvation is in Europe. Don't you think this is a problem. It would be nice to solve this, but reality is it will never happen, but it would be nice to take measures to try to reduce the statistics.
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