End World Hunger
End World Hunger: Create World Progress
In 2015, researchers asked a group of children that belonged to low income families to describe in words a certain sensation that that particular group of children knew well. Children overall mentioned fatigue, loss of motivation, and painful stomach aches. One girl described the sensation as sad, and that she felt like crying as the sensation took its course. Another boy said that he would drink heaps of water to alleviate its adverse effects. No child had something pleasant to say regarding the sensation. Hunger, a feeling of discomfort caused by a lack of food, was the sensation that the children alluded to. The children used in the research lived in New Jersey, a region of high food insecurity, not …show more content…
They argue that so as long as there is a growing population, there will have to be people who go hungry, that there is simply not enough food or money in the world to feed everyone. While it is true that the task would be troublesome, ending world hunger is still within possibility. In 1990, 23% of the global population was undernourished, which counted more 1.1 billion people. In 2016, only 13% of the population, 795 million, lack the necessary resources to be fully nourished. Between 1990 and 2016, the quantity of impoverished citizens decreased a whopping 216 million. Progress is more than possible. Progress has already been made, but needs one last push, for the remaining 795 million that deserve nourishment. Who is to say that the last 13% is unattainable? An article from The Guardian even reported that providing the food needed by the last 13% would take no more than 1% of the global food supply. If the entire global food supply were to be evenly distributed, there would be enough for each person to get 2,700 calories, even more than the minimum 2,100 calorie requirement for healthy living. The crisis is not a matter of food shortage, but rather food security, finding a way for the food to make it into the right hands. The crisis is also not matter of whether or not humanitarian nations have the funds. According to the World Health Organization, it would take $3.6 billion dollars to feed all of the undernourished children in developing countries. Though it may seem like a large quantity, consider the fact that Europe spends three times that amount for ice cream annually, and that in 2014, Americans spent $70.4 billion on lottery tickets. Ending world hunger is a matter of choice, a choice that can define the nation that says yes. It is a choice that can permanently alter the image of said nation around the world. It is a choice that would blossom legacies of ushering the world into an age
In 2015, researchers asked a group of children that belonged to low income families to describe in words a certain sensation that that particular group of children knew well. Children overall mentioned fatigue, loss of motivation, and painful stomach aches. One girl described the sensation as sad, and that she felt like crying as the sensation took its course. Another boy said that he would drink heaps of water to alleviate its adverse effects. No child had something pleasant to say regarding the sensation. Hunger, a feeling of discomfort caused by a lack of food, was the sensation that the children alluded to. The children used in the research lived in New Jersey, a region of high food insecurity, not …show more content…
They argue that so as long as there is a growing population, there will have to be people who go hungry, that there is simply not enough food or money in the world to feed everyone. While it is true that the task would be troublesome, ending world hunger is still within possibility. In 1990, 23% of the global population was undernourished, which counted more 1.1 billion people. In 2016, only 13% of the population, 795 million, lack the necessary resources to be fully nourished. Between 1990 and 2016, the quantity of impoverished citizens decreased a whopping 216 million. Progress is more than possible. Progress has already been made, but needs one last push, for the remaining 795 million that deserve nourishment. Who is to say that the last 13% is unattainable? An article from The Guardian even reported that providing the food needed by the last 13% would take no more than 1% of the global food supply. If the entire global food supply were to be evenly distributed, there would be enough for each person to get 2,700 calories, even more than the minimum 2,100 calorie requirement for healthy living. The crisis is not a matter of food shortage, but rather food security, finding a way for the food to make it into the right hands. The crisis is also not matter of whether or not humanitarian nations have the funds. According to the World Health Organization, it would take $3.6 billion dollars to feed all of the undernourished children in developing countries. Though it may seem like a large quantity, consider the fact that Europe spends three times that amount for ice cream annually, and that in 2014, Americans spent $70.4 billion on lottery tickets. Ending world hunger is a matter of choice, a choice that can define the nation that says yes. It is a choice that can permanently alter the image of said nation around the world. It is a choice that would blossom legacies of ushering the world into an age