Persuasive Essay About Hunger

More than 44 million people in 2009 were identified as living in food insecurity, the USDA’s current term for going hungry (Imhoff 17). The government, nonprofits and other organizations have been drafting potential solutions for a while to solve world hunger, but the number of food insecure people is still exceptionally high and on the rise. The complete abolishment of it is presumably unattainable, but reducing it to a much smaller amount is certainly possible and a necessity. All American citizens are targets. One economic depression or catastrophic mishap may leave you in food insecurity and desperate need for help. So don't you wish our country has a well-functioning system able to support us all? The US’s main answer to food insecurity is the Farm Bill. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs(SNAP) is the major program contained in the bill. From 2008-2010, 72.3% of the farm bill and 53.1 billion dollars was dedicated to SNAP, and current enrollment in it is at the highest (Imhoff 52). Is SNAP the best solution to widespread hunger? Should the United States dedicate so much money in effort to it? “The current SNAP program is so deeply flawed, the United States should draft another “food stamp” policy and remove it from the Food Bill.

As years go by American weight struggle has been getting worse. People with diabetes today has more than double since 1994. While there are ways to help bring down obesity, most companies have not taken action. There are many factors to why obesity has only been increasing all these years.

People in Houston were told to evacuate their homes and to leave everything behind, due to the hurricane, but they couldn’t leave everything so they compromised and only brought with them the things that were an absolute necessity. Not a lot of people are able to compromise so easily. For some people this is a hard subject to grasp. Food is a major thing to in society today that not many people can agree on. Food is such a huge part of our everyday lives, but when two people are asked what they want to eat it seems that no one can come to an agreement. Food, however, is, “something beautiful to be shared with people” (M.F.K. Fisher), not something to cause problems and arguments when a decision about the food can’t be made. More often than not it’s really hard to compromise, but when it’s for the greater good and taking in account people other than yourself, there’s a certain satisfaction earned. In order to be considered a “well-rounded person” in society, it is inevitable that one has the ability to compromise. I had to experience compromise first hand in the humid, swampy, hot, seafood loving, Louisiana. “Four regions of south Louisiana were settled by the Cajuns.” (Ducote). So it’s probably pretty safe to say that Louisiana houses some pretty good, traditional Cajun food. This experience has helped me to realize my place in our culture when in comes to being a cordial, agreeable person.

Hunger in America happens every year to homeless people,kids, and adults,as sad as it is even new born babies. This could happen to anyone why? There is several reasons maybe some people don’t have the money. What if you were that person how would you live knowing that your child isn’t getting proper nutrition? Many people don’t seem to realize how much this really happens. one in 7 people in the United States face trying and struggling to get food to eat, and more than 12 million American family’s face hunger. Food insecurity is harmful to all people, but it is especially devastating to children. Proper nutrition is what a child’s needs to help with their development or you can say growing. Did you know that while hunger is nonstop - African

Wouldn’t it be great if we lived in a country that had no problems whatsoever? Well, this could be a possibility in a fairy tale or in someone’s imagination, but the reality is that America has quite a lot of problems. Two of which happen to be nationwide hunger and food insecurity. These issues go hand in hand and affect not only the children of the U.S. but also young adults and the elderly as well. According to Feeding America, a nonprofit organization that secures and provides food for families in need, 48.1 million Americans live in households that experience food insecurity. Food insecurity, according to USDA, is based on households that suffer from economic and social conditions that limit or create uncertain access to adequate food.

America prides itself on being on of the greatest countries in the world, but this isn’t true for all areas, some of them we are lacking in and could learn from other countries’ example. Some of which are our obesity rates, quality of food, and academic standards. All of which either affect or are affected by our school lunches. American public schools should adopt a hands on and healthier approach to mealtimes because it will decrease the obesity levels in our children, teach students where their food comes from and how to prepare it, also because it merely tastes better.

School lunches have been a hot topic in the Education and Agriculture department for decades. It is noticeably debatable on whether or not to tax more or make costs less, or both. Many students opt out of school lunches due to how unappetizing/non-nutritious it has become, but not every student has this choice and over the past few decades the rate of obesity and type 2 diabetes has doubled, if not tripled, and it begins in the cafeteria. The articles, “Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables” by Mark Bittman, “Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by First Figuring Out Its Cause” by Jane E. Brody, and “No Lunch Left Behind” by Alice Waters and Katrina Heron, each gave complex views on government intervention, taxing junk food, and enhancement

Around the world, people starve every day. The problem of hunger has been around for generations, causing up to 21,000 deaths per day. In Quindlen’s argumentative School’s Out For the Summer, she states that hunger can only be stopped when it’s finally recognized. While this is true, once hunger is recognized in America further steps can be taken to end it including the increase of financial programs, widespread education, and higher wages.

Obesity is a very serious subject that a lot of people take lightly, especially us as Americans. America is the most obese country in the world. Statistics show that 300,000 people die a day in the United States of America due to obesity. This clearly shows that we have a serious problem that is massively underestimated. Obesity is also something that countries all across the world suffer from. For example, Australia is also one of the most obese countries in the world, and 50,000 people die a year from obesity in Australia. That’s 140 people who die per day in Australia. To solve the problem of obesity the prices of junk food should be raised and the prices of healthy food should be lowered and more convenient.

There are thousands of starving children in the world and people have the money to feed them but there is a waste of money on making a commercial.about the issue. UNICEF, The United Nations Children Fund, was first founded on December 11, 1946. This organization gives compassion and developing assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

Did you know about 21,000 kids die everyday due to hunger related causes according to the United Nations. This is one person every 4 seconds, sadly its kids who die most often…. Therefore there is food in the world for everyone but the problem is with kids and adults are in poverty. The lack of not having money to buy food or nutrients for there lives moving on. So next time you complain that not having food think of the outside world where kids don't get to eat for several days and when they do its not much. There is so much you can do to help you can pack food for them at Save a Life where you can make a difference. The founder of Kids against Hunger Richard Proudfit who's been all across the world created Revolution Food Package and that

Over 3 million children under the age of five years old die each year of hunger. On top of that, nearly 795 million people all around the world and suffering of starvation. A large percentage of the population is malnourished and having to live an awful life no one should have to live. Though this is a big problem and is taught about in many different schools, no one is really paying attention to the fact that it is the cause of so many deaths. While knowing this how could you not want to try and fix this issue?

Education is a very powerful weapon, one that isn’t available to many however if it were, we could solve many issues within the world. The biggest and most fundamental problem which can be seen globally is, world hunger.The sad reality is that this is an issue and one that not many are talking about. In his article Frederic Seebohm proclaims that the world bank estimates “that there are now one billion absolute poor in the world” (Seebohm 5). He continues to define “absolute poor” as “those whose condition of life is so degraded by disease, illiteracy, malnutrition and squalor as to deny its victims basic human necessities” (4). The fact that there are so many hungry people in the world today is mind-boggling when you think about it. We are well into the 21st century. We now have the ability to communicate instantaneously with people all over the world. The collected knowledge of humanity, is literally at our fingertips via smartphones in our hands. Now some may assume that world hunger is still a grave issue simply because there is not enough food to feed everyone. However recently scientists who have studied world hunger, have found that the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet.The main cause of worldwide hunger is poverty. As R. C. Pickett mentions the “ the world has at present 1.5 billion hectares of arable land that remains uncultivated”(31). The problem isn’t that there isn’t enough land, the issue remains with the coordination of food production. Millions of people around the world are simply too poor to buy food. They also lack the monetary resources to grow their own food, such as the means to harvest, process, and store food.The interaction of domestic animals within the cropping systems needs to be intensively revaluated. A solution that Pickett suggests includes “governments and businesses interacting to provide a favorable price and availability structure of the necessary inputs for adequate production, and to supply needed economical processing, storage, transport, and utilization systems” (32). His solution is to aim more government intervention as he believes that much more food could be produced at least in certain areas but is not, simply because there is no

Imagine coming home after a long day at school when you can practically taste the leftovers you hid in the fridge the night before, only to find that they aren’t there. I don’t know if this has happened to you, but it happens to me all the time, and it’s probably one of the most infuriating and disappointing things ever. Infuriating because I know somebody ate it when I asked them not to, and disappointing because that food was the only thing I’d been looking forward to all day.  Now, try to imagine this happening every day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, for days, weeks, and months on end. Unfortunately, for some this is more than just a scenario we were asked to imagine, it’s a reality. This is food insecurity. Food insecurity

People have been taking action on solving the world issue of hunger and poverty since the 1900s, ever since poverty could be recognized in society, hungry people have been present. The issues within hunger have been failing farmers and malnutritioned women and children.Farmers around the world have been losing their productivity rates and haven't been able to grow nearly as much food as they have before.