World Hunger

What we going to do about world hunger? Seriously. There is enough to go around if we can redistribute where our food goes. This page makes this point all too well. Please click the link and next time you go to the cupboard and try to decide what to eat think of a Haitian woman trying to scrounge up enough money to buy a cake made from dirt to quell her child's hunger.

Reading this article on the sad situation made me so angry. This paragraph:

"Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau."

is interrupted for an ad by Dr. Pepper. Indulge yourself at drpepper.com. Diet Dr. Pepper...there's nothing diet about it. Does anyone get the irony that we are buying calorie free pop while people in the world are eating dirt cookies? I don't really know what I can do to help either short of stuffing my pockets with food and hopping on a plane to Haiti. I think what we probably need to be doing is writing letters to our government letting them know that world hunger is a priority for us. I say cancel the Olympics and spend those millions upon millions of dollars on fighting world hunger. I say American presidential candidates stop spending so much on your attack campaigns on each other and feed people. I say let's stop feeding all of our food to livestock and give it to people.

Even people who would never have thought about going vegetarian are considering it because it does not make sense in context of world hunger. Even if you don't care about animal rights, cut back on your meat consumption for the good of humanity and the earth. I'm not usually so preachy with my beliefs on the way we should be eating but people are starving so we can eat burgers. The economics of meat just don't work out. Please think about at the very least cutting back.

Ok, I'm done. I realize this probably isn't very well written or organized but at this moment I'm feeling quite overwhelmed by the amount of people, children in particular, starving everywhere in the world right now. I'm trying to make the shift from guilt to appreciation for what I have and find out what I can do to help but sometimes it is so overwhelming. Ok, now I'm really done.