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Help the hungry - An appeal

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This post is not about food, but rather the lack of it. While, we the privileged few, are inundated with ch oices ranging from what to cook? (will it be healthy paleo Buddha bowl or or a comfortable bowl of warm c reamy pasta) whether to eat out or cook at home? and where to eat out? (will it be Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican, Indian or Thai?) , thousands of our fellow humans are struggling from malnutrition and starvation and do not have access to the most basic and fundamental necessity -food. Wars, famines, political unrest and climate change, all have taken their toil on the agricultural  productivity of the world. There is a serious shortage of food across the globe. The hunger map published by the World food programme, shows how rampant the problem is. To download hunger map click here Quoting from the world food programme, " In 2015, 795 million people across the world did not get enough food to lead a normal, active life.  This translates to one in nine of the wor