Wednesday, May 2, 2012

How do you count the world's hungry people?

AlertNet: Two years ago, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched a petition to fight hunger with the slogan: "1,000,000,000 people live in chronic hunger and I'm mad as hell." Since then, more than 3.4 million people, including actors, pop stars and footballers, have added their voices to the online campaign calling on governments to make the elimination of hunger their top priority. But outrage over the "horrifying figure" of 1 billion hungry people around the world, as it was described...

URL: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/feature-are-there-really-1-billion-people-hungry
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