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.
Interpretation
Food security is a critical issue often overlooked by those in power, despite widespread hunger.
This quote highlights the irony and tragedy of global hunger, emphasizing that while many leaders overlook the issue of food scarcity, a significant portion of the world's population suffers from hunger. It serves as a call to action to address the disparity between abundance and need, urging leaders to prioritize food security and social justice.
In practice
During a speech at a global summit, the quote can be used to highlight the need for policies addressing food insecurity.
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago
We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life, we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care.
We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.
This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115
But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.
You could watch entire villages and see what everyone was doing. I watched NSA tracking people's Internet activities as they typed. I became aware of just how invasive U.S. surveillance capabilities had become. I realized the true breadth of this system. And almost nobody knew it was happening.
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