Let’s start today’s spiel on a positive note. About half a billion people in the world are undernourished and more than 20 million people die every year due to hunger-related issues. That brings the daily count to 55,000 or so. That’s quite a number, especially when we, as a species, are producing more food than we ever did in history. It’s another story that we aren’t as good at storing food as we are at producing them – between 35% to 40% of all food produced goes to waste. Again, that’s quite a number. When somebody is dying of hunger, they aren’t dropping dead just like that. Their body goes through a series of agonising motions as their internal organs keep getting weaker due to lack of nutrition. Withering away is a very poetic way of describing starvation: in reality, it’s painfully slow and despicable for the 21st century.
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Remember who they were
Let’s start today’s spiel on a positive note. About half a billion people in the world are undernourished and more than 20 million people die every year due to hunger-related issues. That brings the daily count to 55,000 or so. That’s quite a number, especially when we, as a species, are producing more food than we ever did in history. It’s another story that we aren’t as good at storing food as we are at producing them – between 35% to 40% of all food produced goes to waste. Again, that’s quite a number. When somebody is dying of hunger, they aren’t dropping dead just like that. Their body goes through a series of agonising motions as their internal organs keep getting weaker due to lack of nutrition. Withering away is a very poetic way of describing starvation: in reality, it’s painfully slow and despicable for the 21st century.