All the charges of all the biggest lying propagandists do not add up to the starvation and preventable disease that occurs under capitalism. 38,000 children starve to death each day. Unfortunately, this fact is available mostly from vegetarian lifestyle websites. Over 800 million people are chronically undernourished as of 1994-6. Oxfam at Oxfam on the scope of the problem Different organizations use different methods of calculating deaths from starvation, so there is some variation in the numbers, but all see starvation in the millions each year and once various preventable diseases are counted, we get into eight digit numbers each year dying from poverty.
Technical problems arise as to whether the cause is a disease or lack of calories.
People with adequate diets do not suffer many of the diseases that kill the poor. On the other hand, once sick, the hungry poor can still often be saved with relatively cheap healthcare simply not available. In reality, it is impossible for health care professionals to sort out the various causes of preventable death into neat compartments in a consistent way for the whole world. Although readers should understand the general scale of socially preventable deaths that occur each year, there is no substitute for reading generally about the causes of starvation, death from preventable disease and death from war.