Do you ever have those days where you haven’t eaten much,
and you’re grumpy and uncomfortable and when someone asks you what’s wrong, you
tell them that you’re STARVING?
There are very few things worse than being hungry. But if I
were to tell you that I’ve ever truly been starving, I’d be lying.
Sadly, 1.02 billion people in the world know what it’s like
to starve. 1 in 7 people will go to bed hungry tonight. And even they are the
lucky ones compared to the 25,000 people who die every day from hunger related
causes.
Living in a developed country, it’s really easy to see
problems like hunger and immediately think of the poor people living in faraway
lands. But this problem affects people right here in Canada.
93,000 Canadians visit the food bank each month. 38% percent
of these Canadians are children and youth.
With such a high need for food around the world, you’d think
it would be highly valued right? Wrong.
Each year 4 billion tons of food goes to waste.
In 2010, the USA wasted 33.79 million tons of food. To put
that into perspective, that is enough food to fill the Empire State building 91
times. (Keep in mind that some of these are American facts but similar numbers
can be applied to Canada.)
This is just some food for thought… hahaha see what I did
there! But in all seriousness, next time you decide to order a portion of food
you know you won’t be able to finish or the next time your mother cooks
something you’re not too fond of, think of these statistics.
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this upsets me! when people tell me "Sarah, finish your food there are starving kids all over the globe who would die for those brussel sprouts" I wish I really could send this food to them!:(
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