Having returned to Ontario recently, I've discovered a few things about hunger. Nobody goes hungry in Canada, unless they want to. In a country like ours, that is so wealthy and resources so abundant, what's there to complain about? Plenty, I'm afraid. Food waste is almost criminal in this country of ours. It seems to vary somewhat, province to province, with Ontario being well in the lead. Check out this small list, and then try to be more mindful about what you eat, and what you waste. I have spoken extensively about this in the past, specifically on my blog site; www.professionalchefsfoodnetwork.org
Have a look around, tons of mindset changing ideas there.
11.3% of the world’s population is hungry. That’s roughly 805 million people who go undernourished on a daily basis, consuming less than the recommended 2,100 calories a day.
The world produces enough food to feed all 7 billion people, but those who go hungry either do not have land to grow food or money to purchase it. Fight hunger in your community by collecting food outside a local supermarket. Sign up for Supermarket Stakeout.
10 countries that have achieved greatest success in reducing the total number of hungry people in proportion to their national population are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Cuba, Georgia, Ghana, Kuwait, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Thailand and Venezuela.
Poverty is the principal cause of hunger. The causes of poverty include poor people's lack of resources, an extremely unequal income distribution in the world and within specific countries, conflict, and hunger itself.
In 2010, an estimated 7.6 million children — more than 20,000 a day — died. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of these deaths.
Nearly 98% of worldwide hunger exists in underdeveloped countries.
Almost 1 in every 15 children in developing countries dies before the age of 5, most of them from hunger-related causes.
While hunger exists worldwide, 526 million hungry people live in Asia.
Over a quarter of the world's undernourished people live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Almost 1 in 4 people in this region is chronically hungry.
When a mother is undernourished during pregnancy, the baby is often born undernourished, too. Every year, 17 million children are born this way due to a mother’s lack of nutrition before and during pregnancy.
Similarly, women in hunger are so deficient of basic nutrients (like iron) that 315,000 die during childbirth from hemorrhaging every year
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