UN hunger summit slammed as pointless

I’ve just finished a huge family dinner…as usual and everyone is full. Of course there was dessert too! Talk about ruin your appetite, I open the paper and come across an article which reminds me that a good portion of the world is starving.

The Ottawa Citizen, November 17, 2009 ran a small article referring to the UN’s apparent inability to set up proper funding and goals regarding when they plan to do something about the billion people currently affected by hunger. While the document they drew up says, “urgent action,” no particular conditions have been set.

How many meetings have been held and yet so little be accomplished to solve the problem of world hunger? Why more meetings? Get some food to those people! With new technology, new crops, and the amount of waste in the world, there is no excuse. So why do governments do so little? I think there are many reasons. First, individuals are overwhelmed, there are so many in need that they don’t know what to do. Some give to food banks, or the Red Cross or sponsor a child but that is all individuals can do. Governments have the resources but they fear that part of society who want the tax money spent at home won’t vote them back in power. Then there is the problem of corruption in some of the countries needing the food. But id you ask me, these excuses aren’t sufficient to justify the amount of world hunger in the year 2009!