Persuasive Essay About World Hunger

More than 44 million people in 2009 were identified as living in food insecurity, the USDA’s current term for going hungry (Imhoff 17). The government, nonprofits and other organizations have been drafting potential solutions for a while to solve world hunger, but the number of food insecure people is still exceptionally high and on the rise. The complete abolishment of it is presumably unattainable, but reducing it to a much smaller amount is certainly possible and a necessity. All American citizens are targets. One economic depression or catastrophic mishap may leave you in food insecurity and desperate need for help. So don't you wish our country has a well-functioning system able to support us all? The US’s main answer to food insecurity is the Farm Bill. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs(SNAP) is the major program contained in the bill. From 2008-2010, 72.3% of the farm bill and 53.1 billion dollars was dedicated to SNAP, and current enrollment in it is at the highest (Imhoff 52). Is SNAP the best solution to widespread hunger? Should the United States dedicate so much money in effort to it? “The current SNAP program is so deeply flawed, the United States should draft another “food stamp” policy and remove it from the Food Bill.

World hunger for many years has been a topic of interest that still has been unjustified. Many Americans here in the United States are suffering from hunger due to various situations. Although there is open doors for people who need the support, many still believe the crutch and aid of the federal government is still not giving enough to the needy. In fact, instead of giving more to the poor and to the people who need the aid to provide for their family, they are actually taking away. The president of the United States believes in making budget cuts for aid in order to box out junk food and portray the nutritional value of healthy products. What would be the best support for world and answer to the world hunger crisis? A few answers to the unjustified topic of world hunger would include larger agriculture, cutting down on federal aid, and GMOs.

Hunger is a problem and crisis found worldwide. Hunger does not just affect one specific race or group of people but a variety of people throughout the world. People don’t expect to go hungry and one can never predict if this will be a problem for them. Going hungry can happen to anyone and at the time least expected. Have you ever wondered what it is like to not know when your next meal will be? What about not knowing how to provide enough food to feed your family? Not everyone thinks of these questions, as some are oblivious to these ongoing problems related to hunger.

“Hunger is more than missing a meal. It's a debilitating crisis that has almost one billion people in its grip.” (MercyCorps). World hunger is a serious problem in our world today. Men, women, and children suffer from lack of food all over the world. Food is one of the most important things we need to survive. According to Feed My Starving Children, “Food builds a solid foundation for communities to become strong and self-reliant.” Most importantly, the women, need to be fed also because if they are fed, they will give birth to a healthy baby. Most women are hungry and when they suffer from hunger they have a higher chance of having complications during birth

Over 3 million children under the age of five years old die each year of hunger. On top of that, nearly 795 million people all around the world and suffering of starvation. A large percentage of the population is malnourished and having to live an awful life no one should have to live. Though this is a big problem and is taught about in many different schools, no one is really paying attention to the fact that it is the cause of so many deaths. While knowing this how could you not want to try and fix this issue?

Many people don’t realize the sever issue that hunger can bring to their community, only because of the lack of knowledge on the situation. Food insecurity is the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. Hunger is a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat. Food and hunger are some of biggest social and public health issues people are dealing with in the United States. Over 41.2 million people in America live in food-insecure households, while 49 million are having a difficult time trying to provide food. 1 out of 6 people in America face hunger. This epidemic effects

Poverty and hunger is a common social issue that affects a large percentage of the world population, and has troubled nations all over the world for thousands of years. It’s an issue that we can experience every day without realizing it. We might see a commercial asking for donations on television, or a homeless woman asking for money to feed her son at the bus stop, or in the news when they talk about children dying of starvation.

Global Hunger is the most prevalent issue in the modern world. In much of Asia, Africa and other parts of the developing world, people are malnourished and do not have access to sufficient food. Hunger levels in third-world countries has decreased, however in war affected countries such as Iraq, hunger has increased severely. Malnourishment affects the body all through a person’s life, from the moment they are born to when they are elderly, if they survive that long. Life long hunger can increase mortality rate, stunt growth, increase risk of diseases and mental impairment. World Vision, an organisation that helps third world countries to overcome “poverty and injustice”, has a program called the 40 Hour Famine, where volunteers collect donations and in return give up something that people in impoverished countries do not have such as food, furniture and technology for 40 hours. This year the 40 Hour Famine will held on the 14th to the 16th of August and this year 38,461 people have participated in the event. Through surveys, posters and group involvement in the 40 Hour Famine, I will raise awareness and knowledge about Global Hunger around my school.

You are sitting and watching your favorite television show, munching on popcorn when you hear the voice of Alyssa Milano along with the depressing background music coming through the television speakers. You’ve seen the UNICEF commercial a million times but each time it makes a huge impact. The words, “these children are facing death every day” sting in the back of your mind. World hunger is taking its toll in developing countries and even entire continents around the globe. It affects everyone living in these areas. According to the article “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015” put together by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 11.3 percent of the world’s population is hungry. That is nearly 805 million people who go undernourished every day. “It is estimated that in 2015, 7.6 million children- more than 20,000 a day- died.” Taking action to solve the issue of world hunger is crucial because of the consequences that we will have to face otherwise. If the problem continues preventable death and disease will continue to occur in our world.

“792.5 million people in the world don’t get the food they need to live a healthy life.” (2016 FAO Stats) “66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world.” (World Food Programme) “Asia has the largest number of hungry people, with two-thirds of the population affected.”(FAO) (qtd. in World Hunger).

Growing up, the commercials of starving children in Africa in need of food because of rampant starvation and the pervasive threat of death have been streaming on various media. World Hunger is one of the main problems that a large portion of the global population faces today. Hunger varies with severity but in this case it is the want of food in a third world country. World hunger is a problem that has existed for much of our known history; it has faded away from central concerns because it is barely brought up in everyday conversations. World hunger has many aggravating factors and principal causes, such as insufficient economic systems, misinformation, climate changes, etc. But the main debilitating factor is poverty as poverty always has led to people going without regular meals because they cannot afford to eat. There are vast quantities of people in third world nations and developing countries that are so impoverished that are in desperate need for food. Whether a country is rich or poor, there are always tremendous numbers of people dealing with poverty and hunger. Perhaps most disheartening is the cruel reality that most of the victims are young children. Hunger is a very serious issue that cannot easily be remedied.

One of the economic poverty topics we have discussed in class is Global Hunger and Food Insecurity. Hunger is the condition where one cannot eat enough food for a long time to meet basic nutritional needs. Poverty is almost identical with hunger, a major cause of poor health. World Bank has estimated that there were one billion poor people in developing countries who live on $1.90 a day or less. The relationship is economic: the poor cannot afford what they need for health, including a sufficient quantity of good food. However, this relationship is also linked to other factors of poverty, such as the lack of proper health promotion practices, or the partial incomes used for delightful production by poor.

Did you know this year, nearly 9 million children younger than five years old will die needlessly, more than half from hunger-related causes? Few of these deaths are related to outright starvation, but rather to common illnesses (such as diarrhea, malaria and measles) that move in on vulnerable children whose bodies have been weakened by hunger. Freedom from Hunger concentrates its services in the world 's poorest nations, where an overwhelming 32% are moderately to severely stunted—seriously below normal height for one 's age. In the developing world, more than 1.4 billion people currently live below the international poverty line, earning less than $1.25 per day. Among this group of poor people, many have problems obtaining adequate, nutritious food for themselves and their families. As a result, 1.02 billion people in the developing world are malnourished. They consume less than the minimum amount of calories essential for sound health and growth. Malnourishment negatively affects people’s health, productivity, sense of hope and overall well-being. A lack of food can stunt growth, slow thinking, sap energy, hinder fetal development and contribute to mental retardation. Economically, the effort of constantly securing food consumes valuable time and energy, allowing poor people less time for work and earning income. Pregnant women and new mothers who breastfeed infants and children are among the most at risk of undernourishment.

In the world, many people are facing with food issues, such as hunger, food loss, and malnutrition. Even if a total of malnutrition rate was globally decreasing by 8%, there were 800 million people who were undernourished during the 2012 and 2014 (Seitz, J. L., & Hite, K., 2016). World Bank says that 80% of undernourished people are women and children (Seitz, J. L., & Hite, K., 2016). In fact, about half of children under 5 globally died because of malnutrition (“Children malnutrition rate”, 2017). Typically, people’s health is most strongly related to what they eat, and lack of nutrition always brings a variety of diseases and infections. Development of countries also is related to nutrition. In developing countries in Africa, many people are suffering from food shortage. For

The world is full of hungry people from all nations around the globe. To consider the issue of insufficient food, it is very challenging to put an end to poverty and hunger while also maintaining food security when the world is unbalanced. There are unfair treatments between adults and children, and also men and women, which does not follow the law of human rights. Higher authorities also do not put as much effort as they possibly can to help put an end to this sufferance. Therefore, is there a way to eradicate poverty and hunger? Based on cause and effect, there surely is a route to develop improvements for this issue.