When you are in the supermarket, look how much meat, fish and poultry they throw away every day in order to display it “fresh”. If the was meat frozen immediately at the time it was processed and left that way until it is ready to be used, it would stay good for months. A great deal of fresh produce is thrown away because it is slightly imperfect there was more than could be sold. Stores dispose of large amounts of usable produce when food banks in the same cities don’t have enough to go around. It’s ridiculous.

There are also methods of making fresh foods last longer, such as irradiation. It’s been given a bad rap. But, there are many people looking for a way justify their group’s agenda and they deliberately ignore the big picture. People are hungry and each and every one of us could do something about it if we would just FOCUS on the main problem. Ending the waste. Tell your grocer and tell your government that we have to stop wasting stuff in order to make certain that there is enough food and other resources for everyone.

If we don’t, the future looks pretty grim for all of us.

It would therefore be socially irresponsible to deny that hunger and lack of water is a serious problem in Africa, Ethiopia included. We cannot forget the good work Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure (remember Live Aid)and Kenyan photojournalist, late Mohamed “Mo” Amin did for starving Ethiopian children in 1984/85. Amin died in 1996 on the shores of Ethiopia in a plane hijacking, once again on his way to cover the country for her children’s sake. Senior George Bush once said of him: “Millions are alive today because Mohamed Amin risked his life time and again…” The Interlink Publishing House said his work on Ethiopia as part of the “We Are the World” campaign was so compelling and inspired a collective global conscience.

Have you ever noticed that conflict and poverty are important causes of hunger? See: http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu22we/uu22we0j.htm and http://www.derrickjensen.org/mittal.html
Why is the Horn of Africa a famine and hunger “blackspot”, according to the UN World Food Programme?

Ethiopia’s difference with North Korea or China was that its Communist leaders accepted the rallying call of humanity to save lives, and many were saved. Instead of denying the stark reality of hunger, collectively, we must deny famine (and hunger) a future in Ethiopia, and elsewhere. But there still are good, uplifting stories from Ethiopia: http://www.institutenotes.org/2008/02/alleviating-foo.html

No Water Means No Food

Food Shortages Herald “New Era Of Hunger”

Zechariah 12:2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

We see this today all nations so concerned with peace, when the Bible says there shall never be any until Yeshua (Jesus) returns, it’s a con, and sadly the people in government in Israel are falling for it.
Ask yourself this, has it gotten better in Gaza since Israel left, no, have they stopped attacking with rockets, no.

I could write pages to prove my, sorry prove the Bible’s point and how genuine it is.

And, to be clear, Sam’s point seems to be that hunger is rampant in all the countries you name, and more.

I am sick and tired of people comparing Ethiopia to hunger and famine. Perhaps you should go and visit the country. Millions have died in China due to famine in the 1970′s but no one is saying China is a face of famine where more people have died. People are starving in North Korea, yet it is always Ethiopia that gets mentioned. And how about you Mr. Okolo an African about where you came from, aren’t people eating rats?