The topic I chose for my final presentation regards the problem of the food education in our society, particularly as far as the contrast between obesity and malnutrition is concerned. The reason of this preference has to be found in those alarms that everyday we can observe even around us, confronting our reality with the documentaries often showed us by mass media and all the information we can handle as a part of the “industrialized world”.
During the month of October, while I was still in Rome, the “Obesity Day” was celebrated, as a pathology that involves thousands of people all around the world, in particular in developed countries, with really heavy sanitary and economical consequences.
After this happening, to confirm the absurd contrast about this difficult situation, we spent a day discussing the problem of alimentation, to remember the huge number of starving still living in the world, number that is soaring instead of going down, as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) supposed.
I was present at this big manifestation, which many non governmental associations took part in, so that I could better understand the complaining of all those people who physically work in and for all those poor countries we should take care of.
Their words kept my attention and made me reflect one more time about the moral and civil must we have in supporting every kind of operations to solve, or at least to begin to cure in a serious way, the hunger in the world.
Two contradictions were mostly discussed. First of all, the worldwide agricultural production that could nourish about 12 billion people, the double number of those one currently present in the world. In the second place the alimentary wastage, to underline the way the food we waste could nourish about 150 million of undernourished people.
So many slogans were recited and so many pictures were showed and often they can get a message across much better than the best verbal description and most of all …they can persuade somebody to delve deeply into the problem…
That’s the point I started from and that’s the point of all us should do it…nobody can individually solve the problem but a drop erodes the rock! J
Come on…
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This paragraph is hard for me to read, but I think I got the main idea. I agree with you sincerely, and I will try to do something in my residual life. In fact, you encourage me again, so thank you!
I agree with your main idea. The topic is very difficult to illustrate, because it includes various problems. I'm also interested in the poverty in developing countries, role of NGO and NGA, and contrast with developed countries. I'm looking forward to wacthing your research.
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