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Starvation
is a severe deficiency in caloric
energy
nutrient
, and
vitamin
intake. It is the most extreme form of
malnutrition
. The term inanition refers to the symptoms and effects of starvation. According to the
World Health Organization
hunger
is the single gravest threat to the
world
's
public health
. The
WHO
also states that malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to
child mortality
, present in half of all cases.
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The mighty
peril
is the entire starvation of the country [India] by foreign exploiters and its complete and hopeless dependence on aliens for almost all articles of common use.
Sri Aurobindo
, in
Sri Aurobindo Ghose
(1 January 1993), p. 263
My whole
life
has been a struggle with hard realities, from hardships, starvation in
England
and constant and fierce difficulties to the far greater difficulties continually cropping up here in
Pondicherry
, external and internal.
Sri Aurobindo
, in
Sri Aurobindo on Himself
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Annie Besant
: You see somewhere a man who is starving and if you misunderstand
karma
— as too many of you do, to the shame of
India
, in a land where this teaching is of immemorial
antiquity
— you turn aside from that starving man and say that it is his karma to starve and
perish
; in those hardened
heart
of yours you use the will of
God
as a cover for your lack of
love
Annie Besant: Who can count the hundreds and thousands driven out from home, the broken families, the miseries, the
poverty
, and starvation intolerable, which marked the
expulsion
of the
Jews
and the
Moors
from
Spain
David Beasley
: I don’t go to bed at night thinking about the children we saved; I go to bed weeping over the children we could not save. And when we don’t have enough money nor the access we need, we have to decide which children eat and which children do not eat, which children live, which children die. How would you like that job? Please, don’t ask us to choose who lives and who dies. In the spirit of Alfred Nobel, as inscribed on this medal, “peace and brotherhood,” let’s feed them all. Food is the pathway to
peace
What tears me up inside is this. This coming year, millions and millions and millions of my equals, my neighbors, your neighbors, are marching to the brink of starvation. We stand at what may be the most ironic moment in modern history. On the one hand, after a century of massive strides in eliminating
extreme poverty
, today those 200 million of our neighbors are on the brink of starvation. That’s more than the entire population of
Western Europe
. On the other hand, there is $400 trillion of wealth in our world today. Even at the height of the
COVID pandemic
, in just 90 days, an additional [$2.7] trillion of wealth was created. And we only need $5 billion to save 30 million lives from
famine
. What am I missing here?...
I don’t go to bed at night thinking about the children we saved; I go to bed weeping over the children we could not save. And when we don’t have enough money nor the access we need, we have to decide which children eat and which children do not eat, which children live, which children die. How would you like that job? Please, don’t ask us to choose who lives and who dies. In the spirit of
Alfred Nobel
, as inscribed on this medal, “peace and brotherhood,” let’s feed them all.
Food
is the pathway to
peace
David Beasley
, Food Is the Pathway to Peace: World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize & Warns of Hunger Pandemic,
Democracy Now!
(10 December 2020)
Because of so many
wars
climate change
, the widespread use of hunger as a
political
and
military
weapon
, and a global health
pandemic
that makes all of that exponentially worse, 270 million people are marching toward
starvation
Failure
to address their needs will cause a hunger pandemic which will dwarf the impact of
COVID
. And if that’s not bad enough, out of that 270 million, 30 million depend on us 100% for their survival. How will
humanity
respond?
David Beasley
Food Is the Pathway to Peace: World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize & Warns of Hunger Pandemic
Democracy Now!
(10 December 2020)
You see somewhere a man who is starving and if you misunderstand
karma
— as too many of you do, to the shame of
India
, in a land where this teaching is of immemorial
antiquity
— you turn aside from that starving man and say that it is his karma to starve and
perish
; in those hardened
heart
of yours you use the will of
God
as a cover for your lack of
love
. That man’s karma to starve? Aye, and therefore he is starving! But if a
Deva
guides you to the place where your brother is starving, it is because he would make you the agent of his
beneficence
to that man whose
evil
karma of the present moment has been exhausted by his suffering; the Deva thus says to you: “Man your brother man is starving give him the
relief
it is his karma to receive, and be my agent in carrying out the
law
Annie Besant
, in
The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant
(Google eBook) (2012), p. 475
Who can count the hundreds and thousands driven out from home, the broken families, the miseries, the
poverty
, and starvation intolerable, which marked the
expulsion
of the
Jews
and the
Moors
from
Spain
Annie Besant
, in
Evolution of Life and Form: Four Lectures Delivered at the Twenty-Third Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, 1898
(Google eBook), p. 44
By showing
hunger
deprivation
, starvation and
brutality
, as well as
endurance
and
nobility
documentaries
inform, prod our
memories
, even stir us to action. Such
films
do battle for our very
soul
Theodore Bikel
, in
Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism
(2009), p. 48
I'm a
singer
, not a
politician
, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on
CNN
talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.
Bono
, in
Relief Pitcher (8 October 2000)
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Criss Jami: Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting
food
It is better to
risk
starving to
death
than
surrender
. If you give up on your
dreams
, what's left?
Jim Carrey
, in
The Authentic You
(26 November 2013), p. 69
Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting
food
Criss Jami, in
Killosophy
(8 January 2015), p. 103
In the absence of all food the body's supply of energy is, after the first day or two, derived from its stock of protein and fat-13% being derived from the former and 87% from 'the latter. Thus the fat content may largely measure the days of survival. Even in partial inanition body protein will be used up and the extent to which the different organs will be depleted is almost certainly inversely proportional to their importance in survival. Insufficient information exists for us to know exactly the order of priority of the various organs and tissues but it is obvious that the vital organs must be kept functioning.
D. P. Cuthbertson,
"The Physiology and Treatment of Starvation"
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. US national library of medicine
. 38 (7): p.390. 1945. doi:10.1177/003591574503800716.
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Anger
as soon as fed is
dead
'Tis starving makes it
fat
Emily Dickinson
, in
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
(1999), p. 572
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Henry B. Eyring
:...Since there is enough and to spare, the
enemy
of
human
happiness
as well as the cause of
poverty
and starvation is not the birth of children.
child
could see that Heavenly Father would not command men and women to marry and to multiply and replenish the
earth
if the children they invited into
mortality
would deplete the earth. Since there is enough and to spare, the
enemy
of
human
happiness
as well as the cause of
poverty
and starvation is not the birth of children.
Henry B. Eyring
, in
Genesis 9 Genesis 9
We can pray for
world peace
; we can
pray
to end world
hunger
and feed the starving
children
; we can pray to end
genocide
; we can pray for things to work out or whatever we desperately want or
desire
. Unless we take the
initiative
to make it chances are our prayers will not be answered. If we don’t stop the aggressive
nations
terrorists
, and gangs that attack innocent people, then there won’t be peace in the world. The poor, the weak, and the innocent will go hungry for another decade or longer. If we don’t deliver
food
to the starving children, they will not have anything to eat and they will starve to death. This is
truth
and
god
is truth! Those who create the turbulent
environment
are
evil
; they must be dealt with before evil deals with us.
Emil Ezegner, in
Distractive Politics
(1 January 2010), p. 51
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I hate
war
for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the
dictatorships
it puts in the place of
democracies
, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
, in
Dumbass
(1 January 2006), p. 121
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To deprive a man of his natural
liberty
and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of
life
is worse than starving the
body
; it is starvation of the
soul
, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
, in
Mahatma Gandhi: an apostle of applied human ecology
(1 January 2002), p. 51
Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the
world
: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.
Martha Gellhorn
, in
Collier's
Volume 115, p. 156
The real
scientist
is ready to bear
privation
and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
, in
The Doomsday Lobby: Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding ...
(11 September 2010), p. 70
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O. Henry
Love
and
business
and
family
and
religion
and
art
and
patriotism
are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
It is not surprising that most
Pakistanis
do not support
America
's
bombardment of Afghanistan
. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by
war
. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a
superpower
that uses its values as a scabbard for its
sword
Mohsin Hamid
, in
Pakistan must not be abandoned
Love
and
business
and
family
and
religion
and
art
and
patriotism
are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
O. Henry
, in
Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)
(17 November 2013), p. 622
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A. J. Jacobs
:I tried the
paleo diet
, which is the
caveman
diet
- lots of
meat
. And I tried the
calorie restriction diet
: The
idea
is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
I tried the
paleo diet
, which is the
caveman
diet
- lots of
meat
. And I tried the
calorie restriction diet
: The
idea
is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
A. J. Jacobs
, in
Self-Improver A.J. Jacobs Takes On Getting 'Healthy' (5 April 2012)
When the average
American
says, “I’m starving,” it is a
prelude
to a midnight raid on a well-stocked
refrigerator
or a sudden trip to the nearest
fast food restaurant
Carolyn Custis James, in
Choir News Byron Presbyterian Church
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Starvation results from inadequate intake of macronutrients (proteins, fats and carbohydrates). It may be partial or complete. In fasting, all food energy is excluded, whereas in semi-starvation insufficient energy and protein are ingested. Human starvation and semi-starvation result from deprivation of food, not specific nutrients, so both micronutrient and macronutrient deficiencies result, causing clinical disease. The body defends against these deficiencies by triggering hunger, a cognitive state in which there is motivation to eat food.
Preliminary results of the long-term effects of semi-starvation were presented at the 9th International Congress on Eating Disorders, held in
New York City
on May 4-7, 2000.1 Elke Eckert and Scott Crow presented details from the landmark study of Ancel Keys, carried out at the
University of Minnesota
in the 1930s, and a 50-year follow-up of most of the volunteers alive today. Keys wanted to establish the best way of refeeding people who had starved in Europe as a result of
World War II
. One hundred men volunteered for his study, in which the effects of a 24-week period of semi-starvation were examined. All of the men had been screened for exceptional physical and psychological health. Of the 40 chosen, 4 dropped out because they could not tolerate semi-starvation: 3 developed
binge-eating
, 2 began to
steal
food, 1 suffered severe
depression
, and 2 were admitted to hospital because of symptoms of
psychosis
. In the 50-year follow-up, abnormal eating behaviours (although less severe than those just described) and ruminations persisted in all of the 25 volunteers who consented to interview. Eckert and Crow concluded that the effects of hunger are powerful and long-lasting.
Laird Birmingham, C. (2000). "Child hunger: semi-starvation study repeated in Canada".
Canadian Medical Association Journal
. 163 (8): 985–986.
Inadequate government assistance to poor people has resulted in what could be thought of as a naturalistic study. This ”study” is too costly and will give no new data. Keys‚ study of malnutrition already showed that people who undergo semi-starvation will experience
hunger
weakness
, lack of drive, decreased ability to feel happiness, osteoporosis, hypoalbuminemia, dependent edema, decreased muscle mass, alopecia, hypotension, poor wound healing and
depression
. ”Children of hunger” will be less productive, will learn more slowly and are more likely to have behavioural problems.
Canadian
health care
costs will also be greatly increased owing to health problems, including complications during pregnancy and birth, in malnourished
mothers
who attempt to offset the hunger of their children by depriving themselves of food.
Laird Birmingham, C. (2000).
"Child hunger: semi-starvation study repeated in Canada"
Canadian Medical Association Journal
. 163 (8): 985–986.
—O, tranquil earth and heaven—but their repose,
What influence hath it on the mourner there !
Her eye is fix’d in terrible despair,
Her lip is white with pain, and, spectre-like,
Her shape is worn with famine—on her arm
Rests a dead child—she does not weep for it.
Two more are at her side, she’d weep for them,
But that she is too desperate to weep:
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835
(1834), 'Scene in Bundelkhund'
I have been up to see the
Congress
and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat
peanuts
and chew
tobacco
, while my
army
is starving.
Robert E. Lee
, in
The Perfect Gentleman: The Life and Letters of George Washington ..., Volume 1
(2003), p. 325
Even a
competent
lawyer
may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.
Anthony Lewis
, in
The Silencing of Gideon's Trumpet in New York Times Magazine (20 April 2003)
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In the terminal stages of starvation in man, signs and symptoms related to the gastro-intestinal tract are conspicuous features. These are copious and persistent diarrhoea with progressive dehydration and the other effects which follow from the inability to absorb-food and fluid.
Observations made by medical men at an earlier period of the war on people in the extreme stages of starvation indicate that the onset of these symptoms almost invariably presages a fatal end, in spite of treatment. The source of this evidence I cannot reveal at present but' corroboration has come from
China
(Laycock, 1944) and from
Bengal
(Cuthbertson, 1944). Subsequent speakers will give their experience of starvation in liberated Europe. I confine myself to the physiological basis of the symptomatology and of the method of treatment by intravenous protein hydrolysates.
Between 1927 and 1933 I had, with several colleagues, been studying in different animals the functions of the alimentary canal and particularly absorption by the small intestine.
Absorption is fundamental to all the other nutritional processes; it is the 'bottle-neck and if it fails then all the other processes fail too. Failure of absorptionseems to me to be the essential lesion in starvation. The experimental evidence I quote points to progressive decline in the efficiency of absorption as the period of fasting is increased; the evidence also suggests that the metabolic processes also suffer.
H. E. Magee,
"The Physiology and Treatment of Starvation"
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. US national library of medicine
. 38 (7): p.388. 1945.
These findings indicate that deprivation of food progressively destroys the digestive, absorptive and protective functions of the alimentary canal and also, it would seem, impairs the metabolic function. The small intestine is the great portal of entry of nutrients into the body and if the essential cells of this viscus are destroved, as they are in extreme starvation, then the administration of food will act merely as an irritant,causing diarrhoea and withdrawal of water from the bodv. Therefore, the aim in such cases should be the restoration of the structure and of the function of the intestinal epithelium. Since this cannot be done by giving food by mouth, suitable "building stones" in appropriate amounts must be given by vein. I would emphasize that amino-acids and not whole proteins, e.g. blood proteins, are required, because we must assume that the ability of the starved organism to break down whole proteins would be seriously impaired. Doubtless blood proteins would help in a general way to maintain the patient's vitality but they could not be expected to provide at the required speed sufficient building stones to effect rapid restoration of the damaged epithelial cells. It follows that sufficient glucose should be given, preferably before the proteins, to cover the body's energy needs so as to prevent the amino-acids administered from being used up for energy purposes. It also follows that sufficient B vitamins should be administered at the same time to cover the oxidation of the glulcose.
H. E. Magee,
"The Physiology and Treatment of Starvation"
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. US national library of medicine
. 38 (7): p.389. 1945.
The loss of the protective function of the epithelium lays open the
intestine
to
infection
by organisms present in the food and would explain the presence of ulcers so frequently found in persons dying from starvation. The evidence in the confidential report mentioned above dealing with observations on people who had died of starvation during this war cam: into my hands when, early in 1943, Dr. Gaunt drew my attention to the work of Elman and others in
U.S.A.
The findings of these observers were to the effect that suitable hydrolysates had been used with considerable success in the treatment of starvation arising out of pathological conditions which prevented the consumption, digestion or absorption of food administered in the ordinary way. Dr. Gaunt showed me a review on the subject which he had prepared. At my suggestion, he published it (Gaunt, 1944). I encouraged him, and subsequently the representatives of another firm, to pursue their researches as vigorously as possible, because I was of opinion that the method of treatment, evidently having proved successful in U.S.A., would be of inestimable benefit to people suffering from acute starvation.
H. E. Magee,
"The Physiology and Treatment of Starvation"
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. US national library of medicine
. 38 (7): p.389. 1945.
During prolonged
fasting
, hormonal and metabolic changes are aimed at preventing protein and muscle breakdown. Muscle and other tissues decrease their use of ketone bodies and use fatty acids as the main energy source. This results in an increase in blood levels of ketone bodies, stimulating the brain to switch from glucose to ketone bodies as its main energy source. The liver decreases its rate of gluconeogenesis, thus preserving muscle protein. During the period of prolonged starvation, several intracellular minerals become severely depleted. However, serum concentrations of these minerals (including phosphate) may remain normal. This is because these minerals are mainly in the intracellular compartment, which contracts during starvation. In addition, there is a reduction in renal excretion.
Mehanna HM, Moledina J, Travis J (June 2008).
"Refeeding syndrome: what it is, and how to prevent and treat it"
BMJ
. 336 (7659): 1495–8.
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Afghanistan
is becoming the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The
Food and Agricultural Organization
said that 18.8 million Afghans are unable to feed themselves every day. This number is set to rise to nearly 23 million by the end of the year. Nearly nine million people are close to
starvation
. At least one million children under five with severe acute malnutrition and 2.2 million children under five with moderate acute malnutrition need malnutrition treatment services. However, starvation is not the only issue faced by children. As
UNICEF
warns “Afghanistan was already one of the toughest places on earth to be a child. Right now, the situation is desperate.” The situation deteriorates quickly as the country is on a brink of
famine
Recent weeks have seen yet another trend:
families
selling their
children
, and mostly
girls
, so that families could buy food. In one of reported cases, a six-year-old girl and 18-month-old toddler were sold for $3,350 and $2,800 respectively. In another reporting, a 9-year-old girl was sold for about $2,200 in the form of sheep, land and cash. There are many more such stories.
Afghan Girls Being Exchanged For Food As Famine Nears, Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes
November 25, 2021
I did not feel '
evil
' when I wrote
advertisements
for
Puerto Rico
. They helped attract
industry
and
tourists
to a
country
which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
David Ogilvy
, in
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
Nobody's
life
is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of
AIDS
, many people killed in
Lebanon
, people starving all over the
planet
. So we have to count our
lucky
stars
Yoko Ono
, in
Yoko Ono, a Decade After the 'Horrible Thing' : John Lennon's widow still lives under a shadow, but, she says, 'It's not a bad time' (6 May 1990)
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Samantha Power
Zimbabweans
are severely
malnourished
, and
deaths
from starvation occur even in the cities. The
country
has not yet suffered nationwide
famine
only because
international donors
have stepped in.
Climate change
could further adversely affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition at low latitudes, especially in seasonally dry and tropical regions, where crop
productivity
is projected to decrease for even small local temperature increases (1–2 °C). By 2020, in some
African
countries, yields from
rain
-fed
agriculture
could be reduced by up to 50%. Agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries is projected to be severely compromised. The health status of millions of people is projected to be affected through, for example, increases in malnutrition; increased
deaths
diseases
, and injury due to extreme
weather
events; increased burden of diarrhoeal diseases; increased frequency of cardio-respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground-level ozone in
urban areas
related to climate change; and the altered spatial distribution of some infectious diseases.
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Nobel Peace Prize Lecture of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
, 10 December 2007
Over the course of nearly three-and-a-half months, the novel
coronavirus
outbreak has infected over 127,000 and left over 4,700 dead. While this has sparked global panic and a
WHO
-declaration of a
pandemic
, then death toll is still a far cry from that of starvation,
Malaria
and
war
. This was the point made by BAFTA-award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker
John Pilger
who took to
on Thursday, to highlight how,
despite the fact that 24,600 people died each day from starvation and 3,000 children from preventable
Malaria
, no pandemic has been declared for them.
Here is what legendary journalist John Pilger said about coronavirus outbreak
Pilger decries inattention to hunger, malaria and American wars and blockades,
The Week
, (12 March 2020)
Zimbabweans
are severely
malnourished
, and
deaths
from starvation occur even in the cities. The
country
has not yet suffered nationwide
famine
only because
international donors
have stepped in.
Samantha Power
, in
How To Kill A Country (1 December 2003)
Debout, les damnés de la terre
Debout, les forçats de la faim
La raison tonne en son cratère
C'est l'éruption de la fin
Stand up, damned of the
Earth
Stand up,
prisoners
of starvation
Reason thunders in its volcano
This is the eruption of the
end
Eugène Edine Pottier
The Internationale
(1864)
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Tim Rice
Woman
, your fine ointment, brand new and expensive
Could have been saved for the
poor
Why has it been
wasted
? We could have raised maybe
Three hundred
silver
pieces or more
People who are
hungry
, people who are starving
Matter more than your
feet
and
hair
Peter Rosett: Too many people are too
poor
to buy the
food
that is available or lack land on which to grow it themselves...
It's difficult to
believe
that
people
are still starving in this
country
because
food
isn't available.
Ronald Reagan
, in
Quotes by Reagan Ronald
p. 3
Judas
Woman
, your fine ointment, brand new and expensive
Could have been saved for the
poor
Why has it been
wasted
? We could have raised maybe
Three hundred
silver
pieces or more
People who are hungry, people who are starving
Matter more than your
feet
and
hair
Tim Rice
Jesus Christ Superstar
(1970)
Finally, attention must be drawn to one of the most important consequences of colonialism on
African
development, and that is the stunting effect on
Africans
as a physical species.
Colonialism
created conditions which led not just to periodic famine but to chronic undernourishment, malnutrition, and deterioration in the physique of the African people. If such a statement sounds wildly extravagant, it is only because
bourgeois
propaganda
has conditioned even Africans to believe that malnutrition and starvation were the natural lot of Africans from time immemorial. A black child with a transparent rib cage, huge
head
, bloated
stomach
, protruding
eyes
, and twigs as arms and legs was the favorite poster of the large
British
charitable operation known as
Oxfam
. The poster represented a case of
kwashiorkor
—extreme malignant malnutrition. Oxfam called upon the people of
Europe
to save starving African and
Asian
children from kwashiorkor and such ills. Oxfam never bothered their consciences by telling them that capitalism and colonialism created the starvation, suffering, and misery of the child in the first place.
Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
(1972), p. 373
There is an excellent study of the phenomenon of hunger on a world scale by a
Brazilian
scientist
Josue de Castro
. It incorporates considerable data on the food and
health
conditions among Africans in their independent pre-colonial state or in societies untouched by capitalist pressures; and it then makes comparisons with colonial conditions. '''The study convincingly indicates that African diet was previously more varied, being based on a more diversified agriculture than was possible under colonialism. In terms of specific nutritional deficiencies, those Africans who suffered most under colonialism were those who were brought most fully into the colonial economy: namely, the
urban workers
.'''
Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
(1972), p. 373
Naturalists
and
egalitarians
don’t believe the rosy predictions about how
genetically enhanced food
will end
famine
. Starving people are
hungry
not because of high
population density
but inequality in food distribution… Similarly geni-modified food is neither the best nor the only way to feed starving people.
Peter Rosett, in “World Hunger:Tweleve Myths” in
Designer Food: Mutant Harvest Or Breadbasket of the World?
(2002), quoted by Gregory E. Pence, p. 149
Too many people are too
poor
to buy the
food
that is available or lack land on which to grow it themselves. The real
enemy
is the international conglomerates that want to
profit
by feeding the hungry and selling them
genetically modified (GM) food
Peter Rosett, in “Designer Food: Mutant Harvest Or Breadbasket of the World? (2002), quoted by Gregory E. Pence”, p. 149
But while they prate of
economic laws
, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
, in
Risk: Decision Matrix - Strategies That Win
(6 January 2009), p. 71
All who are not
lunatics
are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be
alive
than
dead
, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a
slave
. Many people
desire
those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their
enemies
should
suffer
. These people can be refuted by
science
Mankind
has become so much one
family
that we cannot
insure
our own
prosperity
except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be
happy
yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Bertrand Russell
, in
Parecon: Life After Capitalism
(2004), p. 43
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Marshall Sahlins
:One-third to one-half of
humanity
are said to go to bed
hungry
every
night
. In the
Old Stone Age
the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical
power
, is starvation an
institution
. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of
culture
One-third to one-half of
humanity
are said to go to bed
hungry
every
night
. In the
Old Stone Age
the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical
power
, is starvation an
institution
. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of
culture
Marshall Sahlins
, in
Stone Age Economics
(03 April 2013), p. 38
It may not be possible to give a very precise and detailed account of the bodily changes in starvation, but it is known that, associated with the extreme emaciation, there is a marked loss of protein in the tissues-and that to save life the first essential in treatment is to restore protein. The exhibition of protein hydrolysates is only one among other methods which might be employed to attain this object.
Hugh Stannus,
"The Physiology and Treatment of Starvation"
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. US national library of medicine
. 38 (7): 388–398. 1945. doi:10.1177/003591574503800716. PMC 2181967.
PMID 19993083
, p.393
When intake is poor or absent for a long time (weeks), weight loss is associated with organ failure and death. A weight loss of about 18% during complete starvation has been suggested to be the point at which major physiological disturbances can be expected (Peel, 1997). Studies reviewed by Elia (2000a, 2001a) suggest that, in lean individuals, the lethal leval of weight loss is about 40% during acute starvation and 50%during semi-starvation. For example, nine lean Irish hunger strikers survived for between 57 and 73 days without any food, with a mean weight loss of 38% of initial body weight (Elia, 2001a). Autopsy studies in subjects who died of starvation have shown that there is a virtual total depletion of body fat (Elis, 2001a), particularly in women (Henry, 2001), while there is a loss of only 25-50% of most other tissues and organs. The brain and skeleton were relatively well preserved (Elia, 2001a).
There have been a few case reports of obese persons undergoing a successful ‘total’ fast (no energy) with much longer survival times (even over a year in one case) and much larger weight loss (65-80% or more of initial body weight in severely obese individuals) (Elia, 1992a, 2000a, 2001a; Henry, 2001). Obesity can thus be of benefit for survival in situations of severe food shortage (Elia, 2000a).
R.J. Stratton, C.J. Green, M. Elia;
"Disease-Related Malnutrition: An Evidence-Based Approach to Treatment"
, 2003, CABI Publishing, p.115
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Nature
builds things that are antifragile. In the case of
evolution
, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
, in
Chaos Is Good for You
The king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving.
Why did you and your
folk
three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking? asked the king.
"We did not attack them," answered Thorin, "we came to
beg
because we were starving."
"Where are your
friends
now, and what are they doing?"
"I don't know, but I expect that they're all starving in the
forest
."
"What were you doing in the forest?"
"Looking for
food
and
drink
, because we were starving."
"And what brought you into the forest at all?" asked the king angrily.
At that Thorin shut his mouth and would not say another word.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
, in
The Hobbit
(19 April 2014), p. 77
Starvation usually produces a mild metabolic acidosis, but when combined with physiologic stress, starvation may cause a severe metabolic acidosis.
Toth, HL; Greenbaum, LA (November 2003).
"Severe acidosis caused by starvation and stress"
American Journal of Kidney Diseases
. 42 (5): E16-9. doi:10.1016/j.ajkd.2003.07.012.
PMID 14582074
Over the twenty-one-day duration of the
fast
Gandhi
dropped from 109 pounds to 91 pounds – a 16.5 percent
weight loss
- or slightly smaller percentage than the men of the starvation experiment would lose in their first three months.
Todd Tucker
, when
Gandhi
went on fast from 10 February to 3 March 1943, while he was incarcerated for political activism for liberation of India from British rule, in,
The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science
(2007), pp.117-18
With
Gandhi
starving in
jail
, legions of
Indians
fighting for
Hitler
, and rampant starvation in
Bengal
, it was near
anarchy
in
India
, and no one knew what would happen next.
Todd Tucker
, in "The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science (2007)", p. 118
The volunteers of the starvation experiment would have been familiar with
Christianity
’s extensive ties to
fasting
. Fasting in the
Old Testament
occurred frequently, and for a variety of reasons.
Todd Tucker
, in "The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science (2007)", p. 120
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Unicef
, the United Nations' children's agency, said this week that fewer than 10m children died before their fifth birthday in 2006—probably the lowest rate ever, and certainly the smallest number since records began in 1960, when twice as many under-fives died, out of a world population half today's level.
Unicef
, the
United Nations
' children's agency, said this week that fewer than 10m children died before their fifth birthday in 2006—probably the lowest rate ever, and certainly the smallest number since records began in 1960, when twice as many under-fives died, out of a world population half today's level.
UNICEF as quoted by
“The Starvelings”
The Economist
, (January 26th, 2008)
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Swami Vivekananda
: As a matter of fact
spiritualism
cannot progress amidst
poverty
and starvation.
Religion
and spiritualism are meaningless to a man who cries out for a piece of
bread
with a parched throat. It is an
insult
to a starving man to teach him
metaphysics
Who wants a
world
in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the
risk
of
dying
of
boredom
Raoul Vaneigem
, in
Heraclitus in Sacramento
(1 May 2006), p. 8
As a matter of fact
spiritualism
cannot progress amidst
poverty
and starvation.
Religion
and spiritualism are meaningless to a man who cries out for a piece of
bread
with a parched throat. It is an
insult
to a starving man to teach him
metaphysics
Swami Vivekananda
, in
Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India
(1 January 2003), p. 69
With the
sense
of possession comes
selfishness
and under its
influence
man never thinks for common good, that clears the path for starvation of others.
Swami Vivekananda
, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 69
...in the name of civilizing our country [India] they exploited our country making us poorer day by day. There were perpetual
famine
and starvation in India. But the
British
had always been callous to it.
Swami Vivekananda
, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 185
Culturally
it was a time of
stagnation
Poverty
and starvation were the common
phenomenon
in the
society
. The
imperial power
invested huge capital in India and made enormous profit. The British looked upon India as a place where capital could hope to maintain a
heaven
. But
paradoxically
enough, the Indian masses were rotting in poverty and starvation. Thus a great
predicament
, surrounded India in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Swami Vivekananda
, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", pp. 205-06
They have sucked out
blood
, they have carried away with them millions of our money, while our people have starved.
Swami Vivekananda
, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 291
Twenty years from 1860-1908 were the years of
famine
. Nearly 29 million people died during famines from 1854-1901. These famines revealed that
poverty
and chronic starvation had taken firm roots in
colonial India
Swami Vivekananda
, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 291
...amidst wretchedness,
poverty
and starvation it is too difficult to
preach
Advaitism
and realize the grand
dream
of Universal Unity...poor must be given
bread
first and then
religion
Swami Vivekananda
, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 353
...the imperialistic drain of
wealth
from the backward parts of the
globe
and its piling up in capitalistic areas of the
West
that causes poverty and starvation in one part and plentitude in another part of the
world
Swami Vivekananda
, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 353
I was
dying
of starvation, barefooted I went from office to office and was refused everywhere. I learnt by
experience
what
human compassion
is. This was my first contact with realities of
life
; and I discovered it...had no room for the weak, the poor, the deserted.
Swami Vivekananda
, in "Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (1 January 2003)", p. 7
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It has to be admitted that starving
nations
never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive
armaments
than anybody else.
T.H. White
, in
The Once and Future King
(17 April 2014), p. 84
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People
who lean on
logic
and
philosophy
and
rational
exposition
end by starving the best part of the
mind
William Butler Yeats
, in
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
(2006), p. 417
In some parts of the
world
, students are going to
school
every day. It's their normal
life
. But in other parts of the world, we are starving for
education
... it's like a precious
gift
. It's like a
diamond
Malala Yousafzai
, in
Malala Yousafzai: 'Death Did Not Want to Kill Me' (6 October 2013)
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Paris
is the only city in the
world
where starving to
death
is still considered an
art
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
, in
The Shadow of the Wind
(25 January 2005), p. 68
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