Every day, 20,000 children age five or under die from hunger or hunger-related causes. That means that every year, hunger takes the lives of 7 million children. While infant death rates have been increasingly reduced in the past few decades because of focus on this issue, hunger remains the worst ongoing killer in human history.

THE WORLD TODAY IS HUNGRY NOT ONLY FOR BREAD, BUT HUNGRY FOR LOVE. MOTHER TERESA


Hunger may be the single worst blot on our humanity. It is the ultimate child abuse, killing millions every year. It exemplifies our lack of love as a species, our lack of action for the well being of others. We have the resources to feed everyone and we know how to create food self-sufficiency through land reform, micro credit and other actions. Infant death rates have dropped dramatically over the past few decades, cutting hunger deaths by a third. But like environmental and population issues linked with hunger, the problems were already so large when serious efforts to solve them began that they are difficult to reverse. Ending hunger is necessary to solve population and environmental problems. People with adequate nutrition and low infant death rates are not compelled to produce as many children as possible, which lowers birth rates and eases pressure on the environment. And global financial crises hit the hungry the hardest, fueling conflict and instability. There is enough bread, and love, to go around, if we have the will.