Overpopulation and starvation, two words synonymous with World Hunger in the society that exists today. When these two factors are associated with children, death becomes the product. The vicious circle of overpopulation, overstressed food markets and fields, governmental controls, and poverty lead to the hunger and starvation of the people, especially the children. We have definitely seen the pictures, large tummies protruding from frail bodies that seem will topple overcome the slightest wind, flies and maggots feasting on little one's eyes and escaping from the mash served in community bowls. I think this scene, as depicted on television, can wrench one's stomach into a million knots.
We have also been thoroughly disgusted by the water supply, which evidently serves as a public urinal, bathing, and public drinking source. The poverty apparent on television strikes at the heart of each and every one of us. The poverty level is grossly apparent. The shacks with no roofs, the lack of needed heat, lack of a cooling system, water, and bathrooms, all indicate the life styles of most individuals in the under developed countries. Combinations of all these factors claim the lives of about thirty-five to forty children PER minute. That comes to 57,600 lives a day. I think that is sick. We, the developed countries, need to help these unfortunate ones. Aren't the numbers convincing enough? does not care enough about his own brothers and sisters to make a stand and tell the world the injustice we are committing as we sit in our comfortable houses, drinking our Brita Water.
Yet who suffers the most? The children? The parents? The answer is the children. The parents in the developed world feed and clothe their children before they even think about themselves, but the parents in the under developed world must eat to produce and they need to produce to get food on the table, as a result; the children are left to starve. The malnourished body leads...