Colin Bloom » UN http://colinbloom.co.uk Your Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Erith and Thamesmead Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:26:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 UN announce that 1 Billion people suffer from hunger http://colinbloom.co.uk/2009/06/un-announce-that-1-billion-people-suffer-from-hunger/ http://colinbloom.co.uk/2009/06/un-announce-that-1-billion-people-suffer-from-hunger/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:11:23 +0000 Colin Bloom http://colinbloom.co.uk/?p=98 Normally I write solely about local or national political stuff. However, today the United Nations are announcing that there are now one billion people suffering from hunger.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said the figure was a record high.
Persistently high food prices have also contributed to the hunger crisis.
The UN said almost all of the world’s undernourished live in developing countries, with the most, some 642 million people, living in the Asia-Pacific region. In sub-Saharan Africa, the next worst-hit region, the figure stands at 265 million.
Just 15 million people are left hungry in the developed world.
Who is to blame for this? Well we are I guess. Who is most to blame? Well in my opinion it is the UN.
It’s all very well them announcing the numbers, but the reality is that if the UN really cared, they could address this problem.
So, given the state the planet is in, what does difference does the UN actually make?
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