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Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Hunger in America is an American problem. The hunger of one should be the concern of all. Especially the hunger of children - our children.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.