But today, we can reflect on World Food Day.
World Food Day started in 1979 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to help end hunger. The 2013 themes is “Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition”. Since over 842 million people are hungry on the planet (with 1 in 8 suffering from Chronic Hunger), increasing access to fresh, nutritious food is essential.
On this World Food Day, I’ve been thinking about our food supply here in the USA. As I’ve started to read Food Tyrants by Nicole Faires, I have learned a LOT only a few chapters in. We’ve drastically changed our soil, crops with GMOs and many other factors in the past 100 years more than we have before. Food is an essential part of life, and paying attention to food politics will become more crucial as time goes on.
Readers, what are you doing to fight hunger? Any suggestions?
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