Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: World hunger is man-made and only we can end it

There are some problems so big and so entrenched it is easy to believe they will never be solved. Hunger is one of these problems.

I doubt if there is a single moment in our history when all human beings have had enough to eat. Even today, in a world where it is possible to communicate across thousands of miles at a touch of a button, eight million people face chronic food shortages in East Africa. Around the world close to 1 billion men, women and children will go to bed hungry tonight.

Yet a lifetime of experience has taught me that there is no problem so great it cannot be solved, no injustice so deeply entrenched it cannot be overcome. And that includes hunger.

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