Three hundred million children are hungry and 18,000 die every day for want of food while the world remains largely ignorant about the magnitude of the problem, the UN's World Food Programme has claimed.
"If the headline in the media tomorrow was 'Forty-five 747s crashed today, everyone on board was killed and oh, by the way, they were all children', the world would be outraged," said James Morris, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
"I genuinely think the public doesn't understand how serious the issue is."
The world produces enough food to feed everyone, with 17 percent more calories per person today than 30 years ago, according to the World Hunger Education Service.
But the distribution is unequal.
extract from a Reuters article.
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And if you feed them all then what - even more children, until there's no surplus of anything but humans and their waste.
Nature is crueller than you for a reason.
The problem is not starving the children - it's not starving their parents.
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