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Nov 27, 2003

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." --Mother Teresa

Hunger For Love

Abundance, not scarcity, best describes the world's food supply. Enough wheat, rice and other grains are produced to provide every human being with 3,500 calories a day. That doesn't even count many other commonly eaten foods-vegetables, beans, nuts, root crops, fruits, grass-fed meats, and fish. Enough food is available to provide at least 4.3 pounds of food per person a day worldwide. Yet 800 million people don't have enough to eat; hunger kills 12 million chidren every year. The problem is that many people are too poor to buy readily available food.