Just one week ago, Robert Jensen and Nolan Miller, writers at the New York Times, released a fascinating article about the correlation between a country's wealth and the number of hungry people.An excerpt: "Suppose you want to figure out if someone has enough to eat. The standard approach is to compare the number of calories eaten to the number needed, with “need” defined by a statistical average across a population.
In effect, policy makers tell people whether they are hungry based on whether the amount of calories they take in conforms to some externally imposed standard.
Of course, very few people actually conform to a statistical average. So what if, instead, you looked not just at how many calories people consumed, but at the food they chose to eat."
Check out the entire article by clicking here.
Counting calories. Finding the cheapest food.
How DO we go about figuring out if someone has enough to eat?
What are your thoughts?
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Day 49. Dollar 49. Pound 49. Gracious God, guide us today to hear the voices of those who do not have enough to eat. Bless our journey of hunger awareness as we jointly tackle these problems and share solutions, giving others not a taste of hunger, but a taste of hope. Amen.
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