FEEDING THE WORLD WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY? - Robert A Ginskey - January 1978

Robert A Ginskey

As increasing population makes larger demands on world food reserves, millions of lives hang in the balance. Will there be enough food to avert widespread f amine? Where will the food come from? Will affluent nations be required to lower their standard of living to supply massive shipments of grain? Whose responsibility is it to feed a hungry world? One-fifth of the human race faces possible starvation or severe malnutrition. In many parts of the world, 30 to 50 percent of the children die before age five, millions of them because they simply cannot get enough food. Many survive but with permanent damage to their minds and bodies. "No tragedy is more wounding than the look of despair in the eyes of a starving child," stated former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the 1974 World Food Conference in Rome. "Therefore, today, we must proclaim a bold objective that within a decade no child will go to bed hungry, that no family will fear for its next day's bread, and that no human being's future and capacities will be stunted by malnutrition." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library