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Kennedy on World Food Day Oct09
OnWorld Food Day
2009
Are you Hungry Brother John?
Kennedy on World Food Day Oct09
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• 1 Billion people in Our world go hungry
UN Reports
Kennedy on World Food Day Oct09
• 1 out of every 6 people in Our word are undernourished
UN Reports
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Kennedy on World Food Day Oct09
• Global food production must double by 2050 to head off mass hunger
• The food crisis pushed another 40 million people into hunger in 2008…..
FAO Reports
UN's Food & Agriculture Organization - FAO
Kennedy on World Food Day Oct09
• We face the challenge of ensuring food for the 973 million who are currently hungry
• We need to ensure there is food available for nine billion people in 2050
FAO Reports
UN's Food & Agriculture Organization - FAO continued
Kennedy on World Food Day Oct09
• People are getting fatter almost everywhere in the world.
• Figures for 2005 show 1.6 billion adults were overweight and 400 million were obese.
• The WHO projects 2.3 billion overweight of which 700 million will be obese by 2015….
The World Health Organization - WHO
WHO Reports
Kennedy on World Food Day Oct09
How much food do I need?
• Like this food processor a normal stomach is built to digest all foods eaten or dumped in….
(unless bad & thrown out by the stomach)
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Let’s check the Human Stomach
• The stomach of an adult is about 10 inches (25 centimeters) long & can easily expand to hold as much as l quart (0.9 liter) of food.
• It normally expands to hold about 1 litre (or litter) of food & can hold as much as 1.5 liters.
• The stomach can expand to hold up to 4 liters of food, more than 50 times its empty volume.
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How much food do I need?
• Honestly, stuffing oneself to the limit is not very safe nor healthy.
• Don't abuse your stomach because you will need it for quite a long time.
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Following - Food for Thought
• Is not about What & How much to eat.
(the author is not a certified dietician nor a medical professional)
But……………..
Rather let’s just say “Following Presentation”…
Kennedy on World Food Day Oct09
Thought for Food… While experts are figuring out the exact cause of soaring food prices:-
• rising fuel costs? lower agricultural production?• weather shocks, more meat consumption?• shifts to bio-fuel crops?
Experts know for certain that High Food Prices:-• threaten to increase malnutrition, • is a cause of death for over 3.5 million children a year.
What you & me MUST realize:-
Food prices are expected to stay high through 2015• Wheat prices are up 120%• Rice prices have risen 75%• Poor families spend up to 80% of their budget only on food
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Thought for Food…
The nearly billion malnourished people in OUR world could be lifted out of hunger with less than a quarter of the food wasted globally.
The hunger of 1.5 Billion people could be alleviated by eradicating:-• Fruits-Veg. & Dairy food wasted by Retailers, food services & at OUR homes.• Crops such as wheat, maize & soy to produce the wasted meat & dairy foods.
Food waste costs every household in the UK between £250 & £400 a year Producing & Distributing the 6.7m tonnes of edible food that goes uneaten & into waste in the UK also accounts for 18m tonnes of CO2.
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Thought for Food… continued
The production of wasted food squanders resources & the irrigation water equivalent to domestic water needs of 9 Billion people.
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Thought for Food…continued
Civil war, terror, labor unrest, violence & strikes prone areas have pushed many people in parts of Africa, Asia to the brink of famine …are Europe, USA or the Asia-pac in the waiting…
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Can You & Me…..
Buy Food smartly….
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Can You & Me…..
Eat smartly…
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Can You & Me…..
Manage Leftovers smartly…
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You & Me…..
formed carpools, shared rides to beat
fuel prices & check global warming…
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Can You & Me…..
Share Food- Yes share food with strangers ?
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Can You & Me…..
Stop Violence & War•To enable cultivable land –cross-borders be used for farming & feed people
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Can You & Me…..
Stop Terrorists & Terrorism
• Help nip the small time goon in our neighborhoods…. before the goon nips you & me…. & STOP electing them.
To enable food supplies be shipped instead arms, drugs, counterfeit currency….
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Can You & Me…..
Support Farmers• Can Corporate adopt farmers / farms
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Can You & Me…..
Support Farmers• Usher the *WTO,WFP, ILO to implement GLOBAL welfare policies for FARMERS & not just for their PRODUCE…
* WTO-WORLD TRADE ORG WFP- WORLD FOOD PROGRAM ILO-INTL LABOR ORG
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Thanks for reading…
Eat to live smart & long…
Can You & Me…..