12 Myths About Hunger

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So we don't need "socialism" per se but why not introduce some happy medium: a socially conscious government that attempts to meet some modest minimum standards in basic food, housing, health and education needs of the people, one that maintains freedom of speech, protects individual rights, encourages vigorous debate and has a healthy dose of competitive capitalism thrown in?

Oh yeah !
This says exactly what I meant. Thank you !
Going to check the site Now.

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www.pathtofreedom.com...

Absolute interesting !

It's in my favourites it looks like a pretty big site.
Self sufficient is in my country hard thes days. ( personal I mean this, yes.)

Houses are all build attached to each other.
Our back yard is only 15 square meters !

Maybe as a farmer with some land ?
My grand parents used to grow all their vegetables in the garden.
My grandma tells me, when she was a kid they did it to. there were 14 of them children in the house.
Then again. When she attended school she learned the Netherlands had a population number of 10.000.000. Now ? We are heading for 17 million.

Amazing huh ?

I did some further research on topic ! Here it is !

The world hunger problem: Facts, figures and statistics

Every year 15 million children die of hunger.

For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years.

The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.

One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture.

3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.

One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.

The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.

It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

This is the Link to world hunger.
You can find even more there.

And this should also be interesting ! United Nations Children’s Fund. Ending Child Hunger and Undernutrition Initiative: oral report

Starvation ravages East Africa News article.

Bloggers Against Hunger. Join in now !

Another campaigne against hunger.

I think we should wake up some more and start acting. !
Stay positive ! Love your neighbour !
With all our complains and hardships in life up front, it's hard to see a lot more are very much leading a more miserable then anyone can imagine.
Dying of starvation

Now , any good idea's anyone ?

Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
I just found an article what I felt fun, important and sad along with it.


Myth 1:

Not Enough Food to Go Around

It's certainly not production.... It's distribution.

Ask the 60 million who died under Stalin's reign.

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As a good idea -- this is an amazing Permaculture series:

www.youtube.com...

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Or under Mao in China!
Under Poll Pot In Cambodia!
Under Pinochet in Argentina !
Under F. D.Roosevelt in Nagasaki and Hiroshima ! ( Not sure about the president ? )

Shall we go on ?There are lituraly countless others.

I don't think it should have any effect on our own actions.

www.youtube.com...

Typically there are 200 or 300 species in a forest garden and are to feed a family permanently.....

There are suited toward more small scale systems.

Originally posted by Doc Velocity

Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
When will people start to realise the global free market is nothing more then a scheme from a few to get even more filthier rich !???

When will people realize that the USA is the primary supplier of food to the entire world, that the USA gives away millions of tons of food (and billions of dollars) to "hungry nations" every year, and that the real thieves in the world are the corrupt governments of the "hungry nations" — thieves who accept and hoard the USA's charitable gifts for themselves, or turn around and sell the food at a profit.

— Doc Velocity

In other words, the leaders of these nations who engage in free market trade? Maximum profit at minimum loss, booyah!

Well well...

Yesterday there were almost, (just like that ) more people that might go hungry in the US then in Africa.

That's why I thought it was a good idea to bump this thread.
It's been a while so I guess a lot of people haven't even seen it yet.

~ SK