33 children will have died from hunger. With the hope of educating students and the general public of the global epidemic, University Programs is sponsoring its second annual Hunger Banquet on Monday. One of the main problems facing the endeavor to end world hunger is myths spread by those who feel that malnutrition is the effect of laziness, rather than poverty. When one looks at world hunger, they must throw out the misconception that food is something farmers grow to eat, and rather, look at food as if it were something companies produce for other people to buy.
Food is a commodity.
Like all commodities, food is produced for those who will pay for it, not those who need it. Yet, skeptics of world hunger have created myths that cast the starving under a bleak shadow. The Institute for Food and Development Policy is a world leader in its attempt to educate the world about starvation and has created a list of the most popular misconceptions about hunger. There is not enough food produced in the world to feed everyone. The fact is there is enough grain produced to supply each man, woman and child with 3,000 calories a day.