1 billion people in the world are starving

[Meatpie]

:eek:


Hunger mortality statistics



On average, a person dies every second as a result of starvation - 3,600 every hour - 86,400 each day - 31,536,000 million each year - 58% of all deaths (2001-2004 estimates).
On the average, a child under five dies every 5 seconds as a result of starvation - 700 every hour - 16,000 each day - 6 million each year - 60% of all child deaths (2002-2008 estimates).

SOURCE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger)

[dogfood]

When a person dies they become food for another starving person. But the world is so shy about cannibalism. :P

The world is so overpopulated with humans though, it's natural so many fail at survival, but it's still somewhat sad. I wonder how many die from it in America though, our government doesn't really allow people to starve and try to feed other countries.

[aguy305]

I'm not for cannibalism. However the problem of hunger, specially in the developing world will only get worse as arable land and water continue their decline.

[dogfood]

A lot of people in 3rd world countries and such suffer the sad fate of dieing from diarrhea too cuz their water is so polluted.