How often have I said that? How obscene. I've always had a huge choice of quality food and have never not had enough to eat.
The statistics of the current famine unfolding in Ethiopia, Kenya & Somalia are simply to large to comprehend. The last time this happened Band Aid worked wonders. How aptly named, because it was just a sticking plaster on a near mortal wound. And here we are again, but worse.
How can I - you - our country - the Western "civilised" world tolerate this litany of suffering and death? I, like many people, give to charity regularly as direct debits & sporadically as I see causes I identify with. It just scratches the surface of the need for equalisation of resources in our world today. Life isn't fair, but we are tolerating such gross unfairness simply by the way we live every day in the West. Only we can redress that balance. At the moment we are all complicit in the inequality.
Do we really need supermarket aisles, not shelves, stacked with every concievable sort of yoghurt to chose from? Do we really need the current plethora of choice of vegetables & fruits all year round? Producing our food cheaply means that someone somewhere in the Third world gets paid a pittance. We should be ashamed.
Everyone is equally important, wherever they happen to be born. Until there is a reasonable diet for everyone in our world we should individually & collectively say no to the unsustainable practices we turn a blind eye to every day. We know that individuals, changing their habits & working together can significantly influence politicians & effect change. We should all do it - NOW.
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