Hundreds to thousand maybe even millions of people are starving to death because the lack of food. Food and hunger issues is one of the biggest problems in the world today that many people are trying to figure out how to solve it.
For example, in the book Food: The New Gold by Kathlyn Gay explains how people are trying out new things like international food aid system; giant "factory farms,"which grow and slaughter animals using assembly-line techniques; and the genetic engineering of seeds, plants, and animals. These systems and practices promise to get more food to the people who need it.This idea hasn’t really worked out like they thought it would. The world has reduced the number of people who live in extreme poverty by over half, but that still leaves 767 million people living on the edge of survival with less than $1.90 a day. …show more content…
Of the 815 million people suffering from chronic hunger, 98 percent live in the developing world. Unlike famines that receive emergency-aid, chronic hunger is a silent, invisible, day-after-day condition. Feeding America came out with a campaign called Stories of Hidden Hunger this campaign exposes the truth about hidden hunger -- the everyday people who experience hunger and the reality of their struggles -- in the United States with the goal of moving people from apathy to empathy. Even through all of this they are still trying to find a way to end the hunger problem and they are still trying to get more food for the people who need