Hi everyone! I must refer to one collective behaviour which is typical for many countries, especially USA; food fight. It just breaks my heart when I see how much food has been just thrown away and nobody seems to care about it. Food fights are a common element in many comedies, with the pie in the face gag being especially prominent. How can anyone find that funny and amusing? I sure don’t. I tried to find out how many times food fights have been used in fiction. It was really astonishingly that almost every popular tv show had at least one episode with food fights. Sometimes food fights are examples of rebellion or violence, sometimes they are planned like the one in Spain. It is called La Tomatina and it is a regularly held, organized Spanish food fight in which participants pelt each other with tomatoes. What’s the point of doing that? It’s even more shocking that these organised, massive food fights spread around the world. They are even a festival in northern Italy called The Battle of the Oranges. I think that food is not something that we should just play with and throw around. Just the fact that in Africa a child dies every 3 seconds is something to worry about. And here we are, acting like we don’t care about the people who die of starvation. We should make a difference, try to help the ones in need, but it seems to me we’re doing the complete opposite of that.

“Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime” Oscar Wilde

Hi everyone!

My name is Tena and I come from beautiful country of Croatia. I’m really glad I have joined this discussion. It helped me to realise how litlle can be done to make this world a better place for everyone.

There are 925 million undernourished people in the world today. That means one in seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one risk to the health worldwide — greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Among the key causes of hunger are natural disasters, conflict, poverty, poor agricultural infrastructure and over-exploitation of the environment. Recently, financial and economiccrises have pushed more people into hunger.

It is not God’s fault for the starving children around the world. It’s our fault.

What can be done to stop people dying?

Here is my favourite quote from Mother Teresa : “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”

Hi, I live in a very small town Pozega in Croatia and almost every house in the suburb has it’s own garden. Everyone in my family became fans of organic food, so it become like a priority in our meals. Our garden is quite sufficient for our basic needs, so it’s not too big. Just imagine how great it would be that everyone had their own garden. It would be good for reducing our carbon footprint, and most important, it would improve our health. It is a lot of work, but it can be a good way to spend more time with family and friends outside!

Major hunger problems have occurred throughout history, leaving millions of people dead or suffering from the effects of hunger. It is time that we do something about this. I mean we’re living in the 21st century, it’s not like we dont have the resources, it’s just that we dont care enough.Every day around 24,000 people die directly from hunger or hunger related diseases - an unbelievable amount. People that want to help can’t and the ones tha can, won’t. It’s not that they don’t know of the problem they just can’t look at those poor children that are fighting for they lives ‘cus it would make them feel bad. There are people and organisations who are helping them but that obviously isn’t enough. I think there are more and more egoists in this world and that the world hunger problem will hardly ever be solved. I am always for the optimistic thoughts but the facts are playing against me.

Here’s a video(read the first comment it’s very good)

It´s a fact that we don´t appreciate food enough. Most of us lives in country where we have everything we need and we don´t wonder what it would be like if we would´t have water or bread. Everday I watch milions of people throwing food away without even thinking of the ones who would be more then happy to eat anything. We are concerned by some material and unnecessary things, I believe we should stop and think for a moment and be grateful for everything we have.

Here´s my favourite picture of all time, this two little boys who smile unspite everything! This picture really gives me inspiration and strenght day after day :)

Hi everyone! I think that people aren’t aware of what possibilities their own garden is offering them.
Home grown food is far better option then going to supermarket which offers vegetables with low nutritional value.
I have a garden behind my house and I must admit that I’m not always very pleased when I have to work in it, but its results are always surprising me.

Since I live on the periphery of my hometown there is a big field behind my house where we grow our vegetables and plant our fruit trees. I think that having a garden can not only help our environment but better our lives in ways that are unimaginable.
I think that one of the problems our world faces is lazy people. Yes, it is easier to buy food products in the store but growing them, is a wonderful process.
Not only is it healthier, it is better tasting and in the end, helps Mother Nature.
I would advise everyone to have a garden of their own, because hard work can really make a man trully happy.
If you dont beliave me read Voltaire and his incredible work Candide. In his search of happines Candide finds himself trully enjoying life in his garden, working and growing.

So plant a seed today, and it will make happy :)

Hello everyone!As you can see my name is Ivan and I come from a small but beautiful country of Croatia.I also have a small garden behind my house.It’s not very big but it has everything me and my family need to keep our diet organic and healthy.

I think that home grown food is very good for the environment and for ourselves because such food doesn’t have any pesticides or some other chemicals wich are dangerous for our health and the health of our planet.There is a significant difference between organic and more conventionally grown food in terms of safety,nutritional value and taste.

Last but not least it certainly helps to reduce our carbon footprint.

Climate change and human health
Human-induced climate change – now deemed by international climate
science to be real, demonstrably underway, and apparently accelerating –
reflects the mounting pressures of human numbers and intensified economic
activity. The existence, and long-term prospect, of risks to human health
provides an important signal as to the profound nature of this extraordinary
phenomenon. This important “signal”, adequately documented and clarified
by health researchers, will reinforce the motivation of governments and their
constituencies to take rapid and radical mitigation actions.
The health risks arise variously from direct stresses (e.g. weather disasters
and heatwaves), altered ecological processes (e.g. changes in infectious
disease patterns, impaired food yields), resource conflict over depleted
resources (water, fertile land, fisheries, etc.) and population displacement.
Low-income and geographically vulnerable populations are at greatest risk.
The risks to health jeopardise the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals. Those risks will increase over time, and afflict future
generations.
While nations strive to reduce emissions, health-protecting adaptive
strategies are needed, both for current risks and as part of longer-term
planning. Health sector adaptation initiatives should be part of a coordinated
multi-sectoral response that recognizes that protecting human health must
be a central goal of, and reason for, climate stabilization and sustainability.
Indeed, in the agenda-setting 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change, damage to “health and wellbeing” is one of the three categories of
adverse effects that the Convention is intended to address, along with
damage to the natural environment and economic development.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Z5gtjhWJ-3M