The will to end hunger in our lifetime
Over the weekend I attended the 5th annual University Hunger Summit in Auburn, Alabama. The summit featured a series of speakers, including Roger Thurow, former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.
Thurow spoke about our need to mobilize and help build the political will to make it possible to end hunger in our lifetime. He encouraged each of us to reach out to our elected officials and make it known that world hunger is an issue we will no longer tolerate.
This message was repeated throughout the weekend by a number of speakers from government, corporate and non-governmental organizations, including Ann Tutwiler, coordinator of the Global Food Security Initiative, Office of the Secretary, USDA; Kishore Mandhyan, deputy director, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations; Tony Hall, executive director of the Alliance to End Hunger, former U.S. congressman and former ambassador to the UN Missions in Rome; and Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger and author of “All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?”.
With the number of hungry people dramatically increasing worldwide, we must take action now and continue to raise our voices to make sure that the United States lives up to its commitments to help end world hunger in our lifetime.
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At this point I’m a little tired of reaching out to my right-wing congresswoman to tell her I will no longer tolerate her complete lack of interest in the subject of world hunger or any of the other MDG goals. She is too busy voting against environmental bills and supporting defense industry bills to take much of an interest in what I think. There has got to be another way. What can we do when Congress is nonresponsive? Keep beating our heads against that brick wall until we are brainless?