Still, hunger persists. An estimated 786 million people have inadequate access to food. In the United States alone, an estimated 30 million Americans cannot afford a healthy diet. Hunger is no myth. Millions of people are starving.
Many millions more are undernourished.
Powerful myths block our understanding of the true causes of hunger and thus prevent us from taking effective action to end it. The real culprits are economies that fail to offer everyone opportunities, and societies that place economic efficiency over compassion. Twelve Myths amasses ample evidence that the world could feed itself with different policies. This will enable us to stop twisting our values so that economic dogma might remain intact while millions of fellow human beings starve amid ever greater abundance. First published in the early 1970s, earlier editions of the World Hunger report sold over 250,000 copies.