Feeding Frenzy
Feed the fifty-thousand with a walk for hunger
World Hunger Facts
- 50,000 people die from hunger every day; approximately one every two seconds.
- Some 900 million people—including 178 million children under 5—suffer from malnutrition.
- Just in America, 36 million were considered food insecure in 2006. That is 10 percent of all adults and 17 percent of all children.
- Worldwide 854 million people are hungry and almost 800 million people do not get enough food to eat.
- Malnourished individuals tend to have a 60-point lower IQ than those with proper nutrients.
- In the U.S., 157 million metric tons of food suitable for human use are fed to livestock to produce 28 million tons of meat; the amount of food lost is almost 130 million tons
- 80 percent of the world’s hungry children live in countries with food surpluses of animal feed.
- An acre of cereal produces five times more protein than an acre of meat production, legumes (beans, peas, and lentils) ten times, and leafy vegetables 15 times more than meat.
- If resources were used and managed properly there would be enough food for everyone to have 4.3 pounds of food each day, about 3500 calories just from grain alone.
