Posted on 10/16/2023 6:25:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
WORLD FOOD DAY
World Food Day is held every year on October 16th. On this day, more than 150 countries unite to raise awareness of the issues surrounding poverty and hunger.
According to World Hunger Statistics, 785 million people across the globe do not have enough food to sustain a healthy lifestyle. The number equals about one in nine people in the world. Surprisingly, the majority of hungry people live in developing countries. Poor nutrition causes 45% of deaths in children under the age of 5. That means just over 3 million children a year die because they don't have access to enough nutritious food.
World hunger is a complex issue. Some believe the problem is solvable. World hunger solutions include:
Help people provide food for themselves in a sustainable way
Give people in developing countries access to credit so they can create their own farms
Encourage individuals and businesses to donate to hunger relief organizations
Provide access to education, which is the best defense against poverty and hunger
Allow for increased government intervention
Some experts believe the answer to world hunger is much more straightforward. They believe the key to ending world hunger is to stop wasting food. The most wasted foods include vegetables, cereals, and starchy roots. These foods are wasted during agricultural production and in the postharvest storage. Food waste increases the need to produce more food. When not enough food gets produced, people go hungry.
HOW TO OBSERVE #WorldFoodDay
Over 150 countries observe World Food Day. In the United States, 450 national organizations sponsor the day. As part of their sponsorship, some of these organizations host World Food Day Sunday Dinners. Des Moines, Iowa also hosts an annual symposium in honor of the day. Across Europe, ministries, universities, and research agencies organize conferences, exhibitions, and media broadcasts. In the past, the Pope has sent a special message for food producers and consumers.
World Food Day events in Africa, Asia, and Latin American include agricultural fairs, debates, folk dances, films, special ceremonies in the schools, and food package deliveries.
You can’t solve the world hunger problem. You can help do your part, though. On World Food Day, donate to your local food pantry. Donate to a world hunger-relief organization. Pay off the school lunch debt in your community. If you know of a family in need, anonymously send them a gift card to your local grocery store. Spread awareness by sharing #WorldFoodDay on social media.
WORLD FOOD DAY HISTORY
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) established World Food Day at their 20th General Conference in 1979. The date of October 16th commemorates the anniversary of FAO founding.
Since 1981 the FAO has selected a specific theme for World Food Day. Recent themes have included:
2019: Our Actions Are Our Future: Healthy Diets for a #ZEROHUNGER World
2016: Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must, too.
2015: Social protection against agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty.
2014: Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth.
Food Glorious Food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7PONiKGUs
The hungry are supposed to dine on your awareness?
It’s also Global Cat Day. Coincidence?
I always thought that co2 should go up as the population goes up...a balance needed for food.
Well, then, I’m going down to the “bogata” and getting me some diverse breakfast tacos.
Bodega................
Are you questioning “Dr. Jill’s” pronunciation?
She’s an idiot.............
Anytime government gets involved in anything, they destroy it.
The name of this should be World Famine Day.
“Dr.” Jill is our Elena Ceausescu...
According to a 1984 report by Radio Free Europe: “It is rumoured that, at the time when she wanted to receive her doctorate from the Bucharest Faculty of Chemistry, she met with strong opposition from the Romanian chemist Costin D. Nenițescu, the Dean of the faculty. She was forced instead to present her thesis to Cristofor I. Simionescu and Ioan Ursu at the University of Iași, where she met with complete success.”[14] The dissertation is titled the “Stereospecific Polymerization of Isoprene” and has substantial scientific value, being still bought[15] and cited today. Elena Ceausescu went to school only up to 4th grade, which she failed, and thus it is implausible for her to have written the dissertation in 1967. The real authors remain anonymous, but indirect evidence points to a group of brilliant Romanian chemists lead by Dr. Ozias Solomon; professor Solomon was a renowned chemist and he had been forced to publish with Elena Ceausescu.[16]
She was sometimes nicknamed Codoi, referring to her alleged mispronunciation of the name of the chemical compound CO2 (C for carbon, O for oxygen, and “doi” being Romanian for “two”). She was mocked by many, including an official who called her by this nickname during her show trial.[17][18][19][20] Contributing to the humorous effect, “codoi” is an actual word in Romanian, meaning “big tail”.[21]
That Alf ate cats is the ONLY thing remotely amusing about that show. ;)
“Give people in developing countries access to credit so they can create their own farms”
Once the Grandkids (all 13 of them!) were teens, instead of exchanging gifts at Christmas, we would pool our money and donate to charity. It was a pretty substantial sum - usually close to $1K. Anyone could do a presentation on the charity they wanted, then we voted, but Grandpa (Patriarch) had the final say.
They year we wanted to buy livestock for one of those global organizations (Heifer, Inc.?) The Old Man put his foot down.
‘Those people are just going to EAT the animals you send to them, not start a farm!’
And that was the end of that, LOL!
Your grandfather was wise.
Sending food to starving people simply feeds them for a short while.
It is better to teach them self sufficiency.
If they will not learn that, your responsibility to them is finished..................
P.J. O’Rourke pointed out years ago that there is more than enough food, *and* people willing to take it to the hungry and give it to them. The *problem* is invariably either war, or more likely, some local tyrant who is *preventing* the food from reaching what he considers is a hated minority, that he wants to kill.
This hate is so great that even bribery to the tyrants fails, because their hatred is even greater than their greed.
He also noted that river delta Bangladesh has some of the richest farmland in the world, and could have prosperity greater than Switzerland, except for three reasons: Socialism, Islam, and foreign subsidies to only grow the relatively worthless fiber called “Jute” instead of cash crops. They also have a larger central government per capita than does the US. And their largest agency is The Department of Jute.
After WWII, Norman Borlaug’s “Green Revolution” pretty much abolished food shortages in the world. No surprise it is steadfastly opposed by both Islam and Socialism.
In honor of World Food Day...I’m gonna eat some food today.
And that is how I feel about “feeding the hungry” in the US.
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