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An Issue of a
Choice
-----For people died of hunger, malnutrition
and our indifference.
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Are you hungry?
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Do you know how many people feel hungry now?
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Believe it or not,
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more than 1,000,000,000 people worldwide are suffering from hunger
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right here on this planet,
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right now at this moment.
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One percent of them die of hunger and malnutrition each
year.
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So how do we help them?
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At a side event of the World Food Summit: five years later, in June 2002, the FAO Secretariat presented a draft outline for an Anti Hunger Programme, a strategic, cost-effective framework for national and international action to reduce hunger through agricultural and rural development and wider access to food.
According to this proposal, public investment of US$24 billion a year would be enough to jump-start an accelerated campaign against hunger that could reach the WFS goal. Taken in perspective, the price tag is startlingly low, dwarfed by the more than US$300 billion that the OECD nations transferred to support their own agriculture in 2001. As the economist Jeffrey Sachs has pointed out, in comparison to a global economy measured in the trillions, US$24 billion could be considered a “rounding error”, representing barely five cents for every US$100 of income.
And the payoff would be impressively high. FAO has estimated that achieving the WFS goal would yield at least US$120 billion per year in benefits as a result of longer, healthier and more productive lives for several hundred million people freed from hunger.
----- The State of Food Insecurity in the World (2002)
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They just need 24 billion dollars each year.
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Unfortunately, the total expenditure of
World Food Programmewho provided food for
102.1 million people in 78 countries in 2008
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was only US$3.72 billion in that year.
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Do you think that 24 billion dollars is
a huge amount of money?
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I don’t think so.
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If every country gave less than 0.05 percent
of its GDP in 2008,
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there would be 24 billion dollars.
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If every government of countries gave less than
2 percent of itsmilitary expenditure in 2008,
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there would be 24 billion dollars.
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If every company whose name was in Forbes Global
2000 list gave a bit more than 1 percent of its profits in
2008,
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there would be 24 billion dollars.
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If every citizen of developed countries and territories gave less than 2 dollars of his or her income once a month in
2008,
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there would be 24 billion dollars.
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So this is not a technological issue.
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This is not aneconomic issue.
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This is even not a political issue,
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but a moral issue.
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Do you believe it?
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Are you still sitting there and doing nothing for this?
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If your conscience allows you to do so,
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what do you think the difference is between you
and this man?
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He killed more?
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I don’t think so.
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People more than those who died in
World War II
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starved to deathin the last decade.
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People more than those who died in
the Holocaust
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starve to death each year.
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People more than three times
of those who died inthe atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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starve to death each month.
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People more than eight times
of those who died in 9.11
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starve to death each day.
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One person
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who just wishes for some food
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starves to death each three seconds.
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Most of those starved people
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are children
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younger than five years old.
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What made those children starved?
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Natural disasters?
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Wars?
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The global food crisis?
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I don’t think so.
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Our indifference killed the children.
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This is an issue of a choice.
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As a member of this cold society,
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what do you choose to do?
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To save
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or to kill?
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You can donate money, food or whatever you can donate t
o World Food Programme.
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Even if you don’t have the power or money,
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you can go to www.thehungersite.com
and www.freerice.com to give free food.
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You can go to www.wfp.org, www.fao.org and www.ifad.or
g to learn more.
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You can tell all those things you learned to your family,
friends, strangers and whoever you can speak to.
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Just believe it, there are many things you can do.
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Just do something
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from now on.
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The dying children
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can’t wait.
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Data sources http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/20872/icode
http://www.fao.org/mdg/55978/en/
http://www.wfp.org/wfp-numbers
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2009/01/weodata/download.aspx
http://books.sipri.org/index_html?c_category_id=1
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/18/biz_2000global08_The-Global-2000_Rank.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_income_economy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
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An Inconvenient Truth
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