What is it like be really hungry???I expect that at some time you have all come home after an energetic game of football o net ball or after a few hours when you have been busy to eat, and said “I’m starving”. Hunger does not mean missing one meal or even meals for a whole day. It means never having enough to eat. It means when you have had something to eat at least as much again. It also means a situation in which you are always wondering where the next meal is coming from or even if there will be a next meal.

Famine has been a problem since the beginning of time. The early hunter suffered grave shortages during the winter months and quite often these were serious enough to mean starvation for him and his family. One of the first records of famine was carved in granite by an Egyptian Pharaoh. He said “During my reign the Nile has been in flood for seven years. Corn is scarce and food is lacking. Those who ran cannot even walk. The food bins are broken open and empty. It is the end everything.”

 

 

In the world of today, not only is there not enough food, but each year there are many more people to eat it. The number of people in the world is rapidly increasing rather like a gigantic snowball which not only gets bigger as it rolls but goes faster as well. The main reason for population increase is due to the number of people who are born in any year being greater than the number who die. That is the difference between the birth-rate and death rate.

The only long term answer is to reduce their birth rate, but as I have explained this will take time and is not easy to achieve.