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World Hunger
How much world hunger aroud the world and ways to solve it
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7th Grade
11/19/2008

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What is a way to solve world hunger?
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Is there a way?
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Some people argue that there's not enough food to go around so that everyone has enough.
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Do you think that that is true?
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In the reading, it talks a little about pricing food fairly so that everyone can afford what they ned to live.
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What is a way that that can be done? Or is there a way?
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The richest 20% eat 45% of all meat and fish.
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What are your reactions to how greedy we are?
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Fur out of five malnourished children live in countries with a food surplus.
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Why is that?
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In the reading, it tells of a person who thinks that by giving up meat, it wouldn't have an impact on anything
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true or not?
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In the reading, it mentions depleting our underground aquifers.
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Do you think that that is a good idea?
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What can be done about the very poor quality feedlots that animals are forced to live on?
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Livestock produces about 130 times the amount of waste people do.
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Horrific! That what is there to do? I know that a lot more room insted to feedlots would help.
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In the middle of the fist artical, that was by Steve Boyan, he tells of how animals such as badgers, black bears, bobcats, cyotes, grey and red foxes,mounain lions, possums, racoons, skunks, beavers, porkupines, prarie dogs, blackbirds, cattle egerts, and starlings are killed by humans who are using a number of diffrent methonds incluging shooting, trapping, and poisoning.
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Is there an alternative way to keep crops and livestock and wild animals alive and well all at the same time?
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World Hunger .org states that world agriculture produces 17 persent more calorises per person than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase. According to this site, this is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 27320 kilocalories per person per day. This site argues that the principal problem is that many people in the world do not have suffiecient land to grow food or income to purchase food.
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Do you think that is the principal problem, or not?
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