Posted on 06/19/2009 12:45:44 PM PDT by traumer
One billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a figure which has increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis, says the UN.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said the figure was a record high.
Persistently high food prices have also contributed to the hunger crisis.
The director general of the FAO said the level of hunger, one-sixth of the world's population, posed a "serious risk" to world peace and security.
The UN said almost all of the world's undernourished live in developing countries, with the most, some 642 million people, living in the Asia-Pacific region.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the next worst-hit region, the figure stands at 265 million.
Just 15 million people are left hungry in the developed world.
"The silent hunger crisis - affecting one-sixth of all of humanity - poses a serious risk for world peace and security," said Jacques Diouf.
"We urgently need to forge a broad consensus on the total and rapid eradication of hunger in the world and to take the necessary actions."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Bush’s fault.
I really have no pity for a society of humans that cannot feed themselves. Feed yourself!
That number is gonna be alot bigger once Obama is done saving us.
It's been a couple of hours so I'm hungry again. Maybe I should call them.
Let’s continue to burn our corn in our cars. That’ll save the world! (NOT)
Malthus...
What a pathetic joke.
And every last starving person is under a tyrannical government who is starving them on purpose. I refuse to spend one more penny on trying to feed them. All that does is prop up the very government that is causing teh problem in the first place.
What a load of manure. The vast majority of these “Famines” are politically engineered as a form of “ethnic cleansing” under $.02 dictators of the third world.
Average daily calorie intake per person has steadily risen worldwide since WWII.
Per capita income also continues to grow, with hundreds of millions of people rising out of poverty in just the last couple of decades, mainly in China and India.
There is a possible crisis on the horizon, but it would be manufactured by mankind's richest people. If progress in agricultural technology is stopped by the idiotic discrimination against genetic engineering and/or if the rich countries keep demanding we burn more and more of our food as fuel to "save the planet" we could indeed reverse this trend and make many more people hungry.
Think I'll go down to Outback Steakhouse for a bite because I'm in America!
Add me to that list.
It’s past lunchtime.
“some 642 million people, living in the Asia-Pacific region”
...uh, gee, sorry to throw in some common sense but...MAYBE IF THEY KEPT IN THEIR PANTS FOR A DAY OR TWO!! Otherwise, why is this a concern for me?
As the world’s population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus’s classic warning against overpopulation gains increasing importance.
An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that checks in the form of poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence. Malthus’s simple but powerful argument was controversial in his time; today his name has become a byword for active concern about humankind’s demographic and ecological prospects.
“...says the UN.”
That’s the clue.
The UN is trying to pick our pockets again. They make these things up as they go along never offering any proof. All they want is our tax money for their own pockets.
What happened to the global obesity epidemic from last week?!?!
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