What Affects Teens Become Hunger Around The World?

It was difficult to read that countless millions of federal dollars and many of our country's most successful efforts to halt the spread of childhood hunger and starvation have recently been withdrawn. And as a result, this problem of childhood hunger is not getting better but is actually getting worse. The most recent estimates compiled by the USDA in 1999 indicate that 36.2 million Americans live in food-insecure households, which means that their access to adequate and safe food is limited or uncertain. This too is very disturbing information.

In Janet Poppendieck's “Want Amid Plenty: From Hunger To Inequality” she argues that America puts excessive focus upon hunger issues among the poor when there are many other important issues that go unnoticed. Poppendieck believes that it is time to find a way to shift the discourse from undernutrition to unfairness, from hunger to inequality. In today's society, there are many food banks, food drives, soup kitchens, etc. Food is extremely abundant in America, therefore Poppendieck's statement is proven true when she states that there is too much focus on hunger. Throughout this text, she strongly supports her claims about hunger, equality, and poverty in general.

Explains how we have decreased hunger in the past two decades but it also adds on that one in eight people is still going hungry. It goes on to explain the challenges that we are currently facing that make it difficult to stop hunger all together. One of the challenges that is explained is Climate Change. Climate change has affected hunger because many countries have lost their source of crop growth due to water scarcity, soil quality loss and many other factors. With all these factors in mind many organizations are trying to find ways in working around Climate Change to help Rural areas become less hungry.

To address the issue within the United States, the book Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America dramatically portrays the hunger found in middle- and working-class

The articles “The Return of American Hunger” by Ned Resnikoff and “Shift to ‘Food Insecurity’ Creates Startling New Picture of Hunger in America” by Tracie McMillan along with A Place at the Table, a documentary, all share the same premise, hunger in the United States. Although many Americans know to some effect of the food insecurity problem in the United States, they do not know the extent and some causes of food insecurity. Resnikoff explains some of the reasons behind the growing hunger rate by focusing his piece on how changes made to the SNAP program on federal and state levels made it more difficult for low income persons to receive aid. The main focus in McMillan's article is there was a rise in hunger because the terminology has changed and due to wages not rising with inflation. The film showcased many aspects of hunger, such as food banks, government subsidizing some farms while neglecting others, and cuts to SNAP.

World Hunger, what is it? Why is it a problem? And what can we do to fix it? Most United States citizens don’t know what it’s like to go hungry and without food. We are a very blessed country. We are so blessed and ungrateful that we manage to waste 165 billion dollars worth of food each year. The U.S. can’t even begin to imagine how they feel. According to the dictionary hunger is “the uneasy or painful sensation caused by the want of food”. There are people out there that can’t sleep at night because of that feeling. Starvation victims are too tired and weak to even know when they’re thirsty. They can’t even sense it. They become very dehydrated. Every time they move it starts to become painful because day by day their muscles are wasting away. Hunger, that feeling, none of us want to have to experience that. Truth is none of us should have to.

Hunger in America happens every year to homeless people,kids, and adults,as sad as it is even new born babies. This could happen to anyone why? There is several reasons maybe some people don’t have the money. What if you were that person how would you live knowing that your child isn’t getting proper nutrition? Many people don’t seem to realize how much this really happens. one in 7 people in the United States face trying and struggling to get food to eat, and more than 12 million American family’s face hunger. Food insecurity is harmful to all people, but it is especially devastating to children. Proper nutrition is what a child’s needs to help with their development or you can say growing. Did you know that while hunger is nonstop - African

Although the United States government spends $176 billion on hunger programs every year, there are currently more than 46 million Americans going hungry every day. In the U.S. every county, state, or congressional district experiences some form of malnutrition and hunger. Right now there is a rapid increase in the number of hungry Americans and the issue is quickly becoming problematic. Today one in six Americans participate in one or more of the fifteen nutrition assistance programs funded by the government and provided by the USDA. Recently more people have begun to question what hunger really is, what all the programs actually do, and what their results are.

Hunger is a big social issue facing America today. According to (“Do Something.com”) 1 out of 6 people face hunger in the US. Also 49 Million Americans Struggle to put food on the table. America is the best country in world, we shouldn’t have so many people hungry. Many people have thought of fixing this problem but one company has found a way to help fix this problem, this company is Feeding America. They have been giving people food since 1979. They’ve helped out 46 million Americans. ( feedingamerica.org )

What may be hard to see is that hunger is everywhere. Yes, hunger is in Africa and third-world countries, but also in the United States. Childhood hunger is nearly a bigger issue than overall hunger in the United States. Studies show that hunger among children has a higher percentage than hunger as a whole (Feeding America 28). It is found that children suffer from food insecurity in every county in the United States (Feeding America 30). It is easy to sit back and think that everyone has the financial and physical means to find food, but they do not. Over thirty percent of all children (under the age of eighteen) in New Mexico live in food insecure households; this state has the highest percent in the entire United States (Feeding America

Knowing that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, it is illogical that hunger has been one of the major problems throughout human history affecting and killing 8.2 million people each year. “Every 10 seconds a human being dies from hunger.”(Cogan) It is thought that this mostly happens in undeveloped countries but surprisingly “about 98% of the 842 million people starving actually live in developing countries” (Cogan). A long time ago, these terms were related to the lower social classes. It sounds logical that poverty is the principal cause of hunger but it’s not only in that direction. If these terms were contexted to the modern world, people with few economical resources would not have enough money to feed their whole family, thinking that this way poverty leads to hunger, but let’s get out of the bubble. People leave school to work and strive for a brighter future in order to gain enough money to feed their family and themselves. “1.2 billion of them live off of $1.25 a day” (Cogan) and yes, they sometimes accomplish feeding their families but they have no idea that this is a vicious cycle.

Over the course of many years, Hinman discovers that, “the World Bank had defined the absolute poverty level –the level at which people cannot meet basic needs such as food, water, shelter, and the like-at $1 per day income. On that basis, it was calculated that one billion people live in poverty. (Hinman, 364) ” Over one billion people including children are living with nothing that needs help more than ever. It is up to the wealthier nations such as the United States to take the acceptances of their moral responsibility and take it into action on the growing world hunger and poverty that is not only affecting our very own neighbors here in the United States but our neighbors around the world. As a nation, we need to come to together to fight against this particular moral issue of world hunger. I’ve conducted a research on world hunger and poverty from the point of view from the Catholic Church, how world hunger has evolved over time and expose the particular stance of world hunger and poverty. As of right now, we need to put aside our differences and start helping those in needs for a better chance in life for now and generations to come.

Just picture that little boy or girl in Africa, Asia or even America, that is starving because their parents can't afford food. A famous woman once said that “natural disasters such as severe droughts, earthquakes, and tropical storms, and the disruption they cause to agriculture and food distribution, contribute to the hunger crisis...” She is saying that there are so many reasons why starvation is occurring all over the world, but not enough solutions. Starvation is everywhere and needs to be put an end to as soon as possible. It has taken enough lives as it is which is why I find it so bothersome because every soul deserves a fair chance of living. If we all unite as one, then we can make this dream of no hunger into a reality; I truly believe no hunger is attainable and worth fighting

In the past ten years the world population exceeded six billion people with most of the growth occurring in the poorest, least developed countries in the world. The rapidly increasing population and the quickly declining amount of land are relative and the rate at which hunger is increasing rises with each passing year. We cannot afford to continue to expand our world population at such an alarming rate, for already we are suffering the consequences. Hunger has been a problem for our world for thousands of years. But now that we have the technology and knowledge to stamp it out, time is running short.

Hunger needs to be stopped but it can’t be completely gone. Therefore, there are steps to what needs to be done in order for us to reduce the percent of people in poverty. At this point, about half of the world’s population (more than 3 billion) survives off of less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in poverty and survive off of less than $1.25 a day (11 Facts About Global Poverty). As stated before “We need to realize that hunger is not a one gender, nation or race issue, but it’s a worldwide crisis that needs to be put to an end and it is time to take action.” Hunger will be an ongoing issue but there are approaches that need to be taken into consideration such as finding a way to give food, but teach them that they just cannot get food like that. There needs to be an idea which can do both, of providing and teaching and not only for now, however making something with will also help in the long run. We want to make sure that, whatever I do, it will last. We don’t want to just give food and leave them. That doesn’t do them any good. As stated in my first blog post, “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”. One of the biggest issues with our world is saying that we want to end hunger in the world, but individuals know it although I need to state it again that many of us do not live up to our standards to meet that goal. We forget about the poor, ignore them, or are just not sure how to help or even