Thursday, October 15, 2009

You Can.

The global economic crisis has caused a spike in world hunger that has left more than a billion undernourished, United Nations agencies said in a new report.

The report says the stabilization of financial markets has meant less investment in agriculture, food distribution.

"It is unacceptable in the 21st century that almost one in six of the world's population is now going hungry," said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Programme. "At a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory."


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In a related note, I now feel ill after reading this, for more reasons than the obvious.

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  1. Oh, now I see that my LinkWithin widget is linking itself to things like peppermint bark and noodle casserole. That's nice.....

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