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    World Hunger and Taking Responsibility

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    In six pages this paper examines 12 hunger myths in a consideration of who or what is responsible for hunger throughout the world. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    the twelve myths about hunger. Bibliography lists 3 sources. BBhunger.doc ITS A HUNGRY WORLD: Do Something! Written  by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., December 2000 Introduction The challenging question for discussion is: who is responsible for world hunger? What if the  who is not a singular person, and maybe not even a group, but what if we all are? If someone had asked me, the question, I would have answered,  over population, and fallen for one of the twelve myths about hunger. Myths about world hunger The correct answer to my wrong thought, according to www.foodfirst.org, (1998), one  of the non-profits, putting its appeal out over the internet: "Birth rates are falling rapidly worldwide as remaining regions of the Third World begin the demographic transition-when birth rates  drop in response to an earlier decline in death rates. Although rapid population growth remains a serious concern in many countries, nowhere does population density explain hunger." Our internet  answer continues, "Rapid population growth is not the root cause of hunger. Like hunger itself, it results from underlying inequities that deprive people, especially poor women, of economic opportunity and  security. " Underlying inequities - this sounds like a quiz doesnt it? That means that some of the things that we, in the United States, take for granted are  not readily available in other parts of the world. Things to look for, if we wonder about a countrys people to hunger ratio, would be, can the average  person get an education or a job? Can he afford to buy land or receive health care. How are old people taken care of? If you 

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