Plenty of food available: let's rethink approach

People should be informed about world hunger. At this time there are about 1 billion people on Earth who are chronically hungry. Every year about 6 million people die from chronic hunger (25,000 to 35,000 a day). Famine is also a cause of hunger-related death.

We have plenty of food for people to get enough of what they need. The main reason some don't is poverty; people don't have enough money so they don't get enough food and are forced to go without. Here in America, the average person consumes 36 percent too many calories (instead of 2,400, it's 3,30).

Iowa has 10 percent of the world's richest farmland, yet we ship in about 80 percent of our food. This also causes global warming because the transportation fuel gasses go into the air. Iowans waste one-third of that food.

Kathryn Quelle

Coralville