About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.

Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families.

In a world where we Americans use the term "I am starved" because we have not eaten in 6 hours or the idea of skipping a meal sends us into a tail spin, in the time it took you to read this far into the article around 6 people died of STARVATION. STARVATION, is one of the cruelest ways to die as the body slowly consumes itself till there is nothing left to consume. You dehydrate, you die a slow and pain-filled death.

America itself has enough farmland to feed most of the worlds poor, yet what do we do? the Government pays farmers to NOT grow crops. What kind of nonsense is this? Africa is a continent so poor of soil that the people fertilize it with their own feces.The United Nations cannot get the nations of Africa to stop killing each other long enough to farm properly.  Poverty is at an all time high, even here in America people starve to death. Not many, but enough to make me wonder what kind of country is this that would let its citizens starve or be homeless? The richest nation on the planet and yet we treat our war heroes like pieces of rotting meat once they have done their duty.

I fear that truly the planet is in jeopardy of ending its own life. Our technology far outstrips our common sense and will one day kill all of us.

We have shown ourselves to be selfish as a world people and will reap what we have sown for the last thousand or so years.