General Discussion

It's undramatic, people getting weaker and weaker. Yes, they'll riot when there are more hungry people than there is donated food to feed them, but that's rare. People who are weakened by chronic hunger are blamed for not working hard enough. Rich men tell each other that feeding the hungry makes them morally weak.

IOW, hunger is easy to hide, easy to shame. It's also getting worse in any country where neoliberalism has run amok. The UK is starting to see rickets and scurvy in poor children. I don't see them doing much about it beyond noticing it and tut-tutting to each other. It sucks to be poor, aren't you glad we're not?

It's not just war in Africa that is causing hunger. It's not just local climate chane preventing people from producing enough food to feed themelves. It's not the razing of a city and all its infrastructure, including food stores, leaving 2 million people with nothing.

It's quiet desperation among the non rich in rich countries where a handful of billionaires have sucked up most of the wealth and left too little for everybody else. It's on the rise everywhere and on the move.

Just don't expect much reporting on it. It doesn't bleed, you see, and won't generate clicks.