‘Hunger Season’ to be shown

   On Sept. 21 Outer Banks Peace and Justice Interfaith Coalition will begin its 2010-2011 season with the showing of the ”Hunger Season.”

  This film documents the massive food crisis unfolding. Climate change, increasing consumption in China and India, the dash for biofuels are causing hitherto unimagined food shortages and rocketing prices. This has already provoked unrest and violence from the Middle East to South America, and there is no end in sight in the coming months.

  The people who are going to be most sorely affected are those already living on the razor’s edge of poverty, those dependent on food aid for their survival.

  As commodity prices have risen by 50 percent, the United Nations agencies have barely half the budget they need to meet the needs of 73 million hungry people they are currently feeding.

  We could be facing one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes of all time if governments do not commit more resources. It is time to examine the system of food aid and question the extent of our commitment to ending hunger. (Thanks to www.commongood.org)