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Title: What Can we do about World Hunger


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What Can we do about World Hunger?
  • Food First

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Thoughts about the Future
  • The way people think about hunger is the
    greatest obstacle toward ending it.
  • -- Peter Rosset, Food First

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Thoughts about the Future
  • The only real risk is the risk of thinking too
    small.
  • -Frances Moore Lappe

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Thoughts about the Future
  • The world has enough for man's need, but not for
    man's greed.
  • --Mahatma Ghandi

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Questions
  • Should we have guilt?
  • We have so much food, wealth!

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Questions
  • Should we have fear?
  • We might lose it all!

Food riot, 2008
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Questions
  • Can we protect the environment and grow enough
    food?

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Questions
  • Should we seek justice?

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Questions
  • Should we seek efficiency?

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Questions
  • Can we eliminate hunger without losing freedom?

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Five Principles
  • 1) Hunger results from human choices
  • not inexorable forces of nature.
  • Therefore we can choose to end hunger in the same
    way we chose to end slavery.

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Five Principles
  • 2) Economic democracy
  • and the empowerment of women
  • are keys to ending hunger
  • and will also reduce world population growth.

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Economic Democracy
  • Because no human being chooses hunger, hunger is
    proof that a person has been denied a voice in
    meeting survival needs.
  • And, since a say in ones future is the very
    essence of democracy, the existence of hunger
    belies democracy.
  • -- Frances Moore Lappe

Hunger results from a lack of Economic Democracy
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Five Principles
  • 3) Ending hunger need not destroy the environment
  • but will require sustainable agriculture
  • that can be practiced by even the poor.

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Five Principles
  • 4) Greater fairness can lead to ending hunger
  • if we devise food systems where those that do the
    work
  • have a greater say and reap a greater reward.

Farmers protesting for land reform
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Five Principles
  • 5) The increased well-being of the poor in the
    third world
  • can enhance our own well-being
  • we need not fear their advancement.

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What can we do?
  • If change is possible, we must change ourselves.

ISU student in Africa
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What can we do?
  • We must examine our everyday choices.

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Personal Choices
  • 1) Get alternative information.
  • Mainstream TV, press has a vision clouded by
    myths.

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Personal Choices
  • 2) Educate others
  • friends
  • co-workers
  • family.
  • Speak up when others voice self-defeating myths.

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Personal choices
  • 3) Choose a job that contributes to the solution
    rather than to the problem.
  • Is accumulation of material possession the real
    key to a satisfying life?

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Personal Choices
  • 4) Help hungry, homeless people through church,
    community groups.

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Personal Choices
  • 5) Participate in
  • community planning
  • more and better jobs
  • affordable housing
  • environmental protection.

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Personal Choices
  • 6) Elect officials committed to addressing roots
    of hunger.

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Vote!
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Personal Choices
  • 7) Spend money on less processed,
  • less packaged foods
  • from co-ops or worker owned stores.

Farmers market
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Personal Choices
  • 8) Boycotts have been successful
  • Nestle stopped marketing baby formula in third
    world
  • divestment helped bring majority rule to South
    Africa.

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Personal choices
  • 9) Become an activist.
  • Social movements
  • brought women the vote
  • got civil rights legislation
  • helped end war in Vietnam.

Civil rights protest
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Moral Courage
  • Compassion is essential
  • but is easy.
  • Harder to achieve is moral courage.
  • It takes courage to cry out "The emperor wears no
    clothes"
  • In the face of injustice, inequity, malnutrition

Nigeria
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Moral Courage
  • Takes courage to challenge the status quo,
  • to point out that the world is awash in food
  • and all of the suffering is the result of human
    decisions.
  • We risk embarrassment,
  • dismissal by friends
  • to speak out about widespread false
    understandings of the world.

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Compassion
  • This courage comes from the same place our
    compassion comes from
  • our innate moral sensibilities,
  • our deepest emotional intuitions
  • about our connectedness to others' well-being.

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Compassion
  • Ironically, the message of compassion and
    connectedness to others' well-being
  • underlies the dominant western religion,
    Christianity

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Compassion
  • But our culture has elevated economic dogma
  • market and property rights
  • above the Christian message
  • of love, compassion and connection.

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