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Close up view. On the top of each Hebrew letter are individual stalks of withered grass. Many of our plant proteins such wheat, and rice are all from the grass family. Plant protein sources are a primary reason for development of advanced civilization. (Read Guns, Germs and Steel to learn more.)
Photo Credit: Philip Cohen
Blight - World Hunger is one piece in a series the 10 Modern Plagues. While there has always been hunger, I consider it a modern plague because world food production, right now has the ability to feed and transport food to the world, yet people still suffer from hunger.
Even right here in the United States people suffer from hunger. In urban center there are food deserts where it is impossible to buy healthy food. At the same time there is the amazing and painful irony that we are killing ourselves with a shorter lifespan from obesity.
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