Summary: The 30 Hour Famine

World hunger is an issue that should affect us all. Everyone has felt hunger pains, or claimed that they are “starving” if it’s been a while since their last meal. But most of us have never experienced real hunger - chronic hunger. Chronic hunger means not having enough daily nutrition to meet the requirements for days, weeks, or even months. It means being too weak to fight off disease, and dying from common infections. It means kids going blind from a lack of Vitamin A, or having brittle bines from a lack of iron (wfp.org). Most of us will never experience it, but we should all be concerned by it.
There are two sides to every argument, and that includes the disagreements over population and world hunger. New Malthusians are people that agree with the theories of Thomas Malthus, who said that if the people do not control the number of births occurring each year, the population will eventually outstrip its food supply. This theory is supported by the incredible boom in
Once the fund-raising is over, the groups then go 30 hours without food so that they can have a better understanding of what it is really like to be hungry.

Arguably the most important hunger organization is the United Nations Food Program. They aim to improve nutrition and quality of life of the world’s most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives. They also organize emergency operations and promote awareness. But perhaps the most significant job they do is enabling development by helping people build assets that benefit them directly; helping poor communities build a future (wfp.org). This will help these people start to break these cycles of poverty – a chance they never would have had without the Food