poverty

The difference between feeding your dog and feeding all the people in the world is only two billion dollars, and that only includes Europe and the United States. The annual expenditure of money for pet food in Europe and the United States is 17billion dollars. To eliminate global hunger it would only cost 19 billion dollars, just 2 billion more than what is spent on pet food in some countries. In the United States 17 percent of children live in poverty. In the USA Poverty is most predominant among black and Latino children. These statistics show that although there are people helping to make the world a better place most people just turn there backs on poverty.

In Canada children living under the poverty line make up approximately 15 percent of Canada’s population. In 2005 close to one million people depended on food banks for survival. That number hasn’t changed very much since then, if anything it is only going up. Half he people using Canadian food banks in 2005 were children under the age of 18. Only one tenth of Canada’s children living in poverty use a food bank. This means that some of them don’t need to use a food bank but are still considered below the poverty line.

While you read this you should realize that you are well above the poverty line. The cost of a computer is well above the price that people less fortunate would like to spend on a luxury item of minimal proportions while they starve to death on the streets. The number that corresponds to this fact is something around 600 million children. That’s 600,000,000 CHILDREN. While at the same time 800,000,000 children go to sleep hungry every night. Every year 11,000,000 children die before their fifth birthday. Place yourself in that situation and think just how cruel life is.