7-Jun-2005

An estimated 34,000 children under age five die every day from hunger and preventable diseases (many
of them caused by chronic malnutrition).

This is the equivalent of more than three 747 airliners, each holding 430 children, crashing every hour, every day, year-round and leaving no survivors.

Every hour, every day.

While thousands of children die every day from complications of lack of food, we live in a country that has to write laws to keep us from killing ourselves by eating too much.

Lord, have mercy.