26,500-30,000 children die each day due to poverty. They die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death. Millions of painful deaths caused by disease, starvation and other forms of suffering we never have to encounter.
We hold life in our burly hands, cradling it as and shoots upwards searching for the light, only to starve it from life and provisions. We seal both hands around it, suffocating it from existence. The magnificence dies as if it never existed at all. We discard seeds into the bin carelessly and purposely wilt a selection for our own amusement, sowing them to execution with our very own hands. Because it doesn’t matter, there are plenty riper packets. It’s the common social case of survival of the fittest; only the self-centered with a heart of gluttony survive.
Or are those brought into the world victims too? The rare exception that care usually failing in their desperate attempts to defeat the biting masses and change the cruelty that exists. Overcome by the density of problems and the size of the opposition. There are strength in numbers and the challenger is brutal. Some revolve to the other side as their attempts to correct misery to good seem pitiful and useless against the dark. Another child another criminal, another victim or another viewer unable to contribute and fight. Tribulations multiplying like sickness and the infection far spread, is there a cure?
World agriculture produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase. This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person each day. We have enough food for everyone and yet 4000 people starve each hour, victims of our arrogant ‘oblivious’ denial. Apparently equality exists, equality meaning we all have equal roles and rights. Do we not all deserve the same amount of food? Are we not all worthy enough to live?
The distribution of provisions is not equal due to snatching hands stealing any compassion away from the innocent plates that are searching for aid. We stuff more lies into our heads, in self belief we are kind and helpful. The true meaning of obesity; a portion of lies served up with every mouthful of food we cram into our repulsive faces. Obesity to the honest extent, eat until you vomit whilst the dead lie beneath your feet with lifeless-outstretched hands. Your deciding what is worthy, and what deserves to suffer. I hope you feel like God.
Blood smothers the forks in our plump hands, the run off rotting onto our wallets. Scream and die. There is no hell. Filth. We are the lowliest evil accomplishable, the bottom less pit of malice and superciliousness. Each thoughtless person a devil that tortures and inflicts unbelievable cruelty on any defenseless being caught up in our human nature.The target set at the 1996 World Food Summit was to halve the number of undernourished people by 2015 from their number in 1990-92. The estimated number of undernourished people in developing countries was 824 million in 1990-92. In 2000-02, the number had declined only slightly to 820 million. So, overall, the world is not making progress toward the world food summit goal, although there has been progress in Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean we could be doing so much more.
When we stumble upon a charity box at a supermarket we occasionally toss in a few coins walking onwards with our products and the self satisfaction that we’ve ‘done our bit’, deceiving ourselves that we are empathic. Is this purely ignorance or rejection? We are aware of the injustice to some extent and yet are motionless in our actions to do anything at all about it. We are not the ones suffering, nor do we know them personally, is this why we allow it to continue? isn’t that evidence of our complete selfish ways? How would you rather spend your money, on presents for you, or to help those in need? 10.6 million Died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5, the number appears meaningless unless it was our child. We blame the government, natural disasters, anything to rid us of the guilt. The truth being that united we could cleanse the Earth of moral evil, but we don’t attempt to. If we shared all the money in the world there would be no poverty. Billionaires have too much to spend whilst half the world, nearly three billion people, lives on less than two dollars a day. We generate more pain worsening the situation and we do not amalgamate.
My torment is that I am currently self involved, complaining about the existing problems and not contributing enough as I sit typing in the comfort of my home. Even I don’t know the extent of the affliction. You will read this and go on regardless to my every word, enjoying your day whilst whole countries are crying out to us. Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen. Lay down your guns and egotistical self-indulgence, isn’t it about time we opened our eyes and actually did something about the agony that surrounds us? We are the ones that are fortunate, how can we let so many remain in pain? Their everyday a trial of will and survival.
Molly Elizabeth,Helen Smith
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