Persuasive Speech On World Hunger

Many people don’t get the chance to survive and live to have a horrible death. Many people here in the U.S. don’t think that survival is important in other countries. I believe that in order to have a better world, everyone needs to survive and that means ending world hunger. Do you know when your next meal could be the last? Eight hundred fifteen million people don’t have the food they need because they have no job, natural disaster has struck them or they live in very poor spots of the world. Eight hundred fifteen million, that’s a big number, right? Eight hundred fifteen million people in the world don’t get the food they need to live a healthy life.1 Small amounts of food are given to starving people everyday, sometimes none of them

Since 1990, the world has reduced the number of people who live in extreme poverty by over half. But that still leaves 767 million people living on the edge of survival with less than $1.90 a day.2 The numbers of world hunger has gone down by a lot, but yet world hunger is still going on. Some of the poorest countries in the world have few to no jobs, and the few jobs that there are, are paid very little each day. Survival is key to these people and with the little money they have, it’s hard to do that. Across the globe, conflicts consistently disrupt farming and food production. Fighting also forces millions of people to flee their homes, leading to hunger emergencies as the displaced find themselves without the means to feed themselves.3 Across the world so many people are struggling for food because of war. This can happen because the countries are poor or air raid can strike things that were helping to grow food and to have fresh water. People get pushed out of their home and then the hunger population grows, by a lot. Natural disasters such as floods, tropical storms and long periods of drought are on the increase -- with calamitous consequences for the hungry poor in developing countries.3 Natural disasters, it happens. Things such as tornadoes, hurricanes and floods leave people to starve. These horrible things happen, it’s just what we do about it that makes a difference. As

Africa is beautiful but with all of the garbage and other things getting burned, Africa looks horrible. Asia is the continent with the most hungry people -- two thirds of the world’s total. Southern Asia faces the greatest hunger burden, with about 281 million undernourished people.2 I always thought that Africa was the most undernourished country, but now I know it’s Asia. Smaller countries are more likely to be undernourished, but that doesn’t mean they always are this is because of the few jobs. Since 1990, the world has reduced the number of people who live in extreme poverty by over half. But that still leaves 767 million people living on the edge of survival with less than $1.90 a day.2 One dollar and ninety cents a day, that is way less than what minimum wage is in the U.S., per hour. So many people go with that $1.90 a day, that couldn’t buy you a nourishing meal. Many countries have this problem, which is horrible. I learned that many people think that the appearance is all that country