Hunger is infinity more than feeling peckish between breakfast and lunch.
It is the acute absence of any sort of relief from that emptiness in your breadbasket.
It’s gone beyond the dull ache stage, past the symptomatic headaches and dizziness, way beyond.
It’s the absence of means to gather food.
It’s the absence of the ability to procure a single grain or a drop of gruel to put into the parched mouth of an offspring.
It’s the absence of hope.
It is the acute absence of any sort of relief from that emptiness in your breadbasket.
It’s gone beyond the dull ache stage, past the symptomatic headaches and dizziness, way beyond.
It’s the absence of means to gather food.
It’s the absence of the ability to procure a single grain or a drop of gruel to put into the parched mouth of an offspring.
It’s the absence of hope.
And in this country, where there is so much hunger in so many places, where people are starving, there are mountains of grain that is just lying around. It’s not being distributed. It’s not being sold. It’s waiting to be eaten by rats and worms. It’s going to lie there and rot, while hundreds of people die of slow starvation.
Instead of sitting on our fannies and staring at TV stories of hunger in our country, it’s time we did something to urge our government to move those surplus stocks of food to alleviate people’s misery, to bring to them a ray of hope. Instead of letting that food eventually rot, why not sell it to the starving at rates they can afford?
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