recommended by Margaret

MARGARET - has forwarded this cite concerning world hunger.  The essential question these authors ask in an up-coming book, is whether the world really cares to try to feed the hungry.

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Can We Feed the World? More Importantly Will We Choose To?
Hen and Harvest
Oct 16th, 2008
By Aaron Newton and Sharon Astyk

EXCERPT:

It is easy to “know” that a world in which a human right to food is enforced is “unrealistic” or “naïve.” It is easy to know that there simply too many people, and that the powers that be are too entrenched to turn around. And it may, unfortunately, turn out to be true that we fail to create a society that would permit these things. But we would fail either because we did not try or because we did not try hard enough, not because it was never possible. Beginning from the assumption that greater equity is impossible naturalizes disaster—it says that the reason people starve is because we can’t do anything about it, and it makes it easy for us to wash our hands of the whole project of justice. This is wrong. What we can accomplish in terms of equity is debatable, and accomplishing it will be challenging. That does not free us not to attempt the project.

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