The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
Fidel CastroTag: wealth war weapons ignorance oppression poverty illness hunger weapons-of-mass-destruction
After a full belly all is poetry.
Frank McCourtShukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly--it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynHere are two facts that should not both be true:
- There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet.
- Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
Tag: food hunger famine agriculture distribution
I’ve supped on potatoes and groats and am waiting to be sick. How about you?
I supped like the Lord in Heaven.’
and what does the Lord in Heaven have for supper?’
Nothing.
1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.
Mark BittmanTag: wealth food economics health hunger
Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.
Sarah Addison AllenTag: magic expectation desire chocolate hunger ice-cream
We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.
Jean-Bertrand AristidePa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).
Jean-Bertrand AristideTowards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.
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