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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.

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.

People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

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

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.