John Scott
07-24-2009, 10:10 AM
So I hear over and over that 36 million people die each year from hunger.
36 million dying from starvation
Wow! 36 million starving to death each year?
“On average, 62 million people die each year, of whom probably 36 million (58 per cent) directly or indirectly as a result of nutritional deficiencies, infections, epidemics or diseases which attack the body when its resistance and immunity have been weakened by undernourishment and hunger.”.
So in other words, they don't starve to death, they die from diseases or infections which we all get, and we all die from. Many cancer patients are unable to eat in their final days, so they may be said to die from hunger. But anybody with two brain cells knows they died from cancer.
Oddly enough, as a doomsday science project, the politicians who invoke massive starvation do so as a way of suspending individual freedom and promoting state control; the irony is that historically, people have been starved to death en masse by governments. So if we are to take the threat of starvation seriously, the best bet would be to diminish the power of governments.
36 million dying from starvation
Wow! 36 million starving to death each year?
“On average, 62 million people die each year, of whom probably 36 million (58 per cent) directly or indirectly as a result of nutritional deficiencies, infections, epidemics or diseases which attack the body when its resistance and immunity have been weakened by undernourishment and hunger.”.
So in other words, they don't starve to death, they die from diseases or infections which we all get, and we all die from. Many cancer patients are unable to eat in their final days, so they may be said to die from hunger. But anybody with two brain cells knows they died from cancer.
Oddly enough, as a doomsday science project, the politicians who invoke massive starvation do so as a way of suspending individual freedom and promoting state control; the irony is that historically, people have been starved to death en masse by governments. So if we are to take the threat of starvation seriously, the best bet would be to diminish the power of governments.