Yesterday morning I jumped online and was greeted by CNN’s headline “World Food Prices Hit Record High“. This quote from the article keeps running through my mind.
“High global food prices risk hunger for millions of people. Poor people in developing countries spend up to 80% of their income on food. For them high food prices mean selling off their land or sacrificing their child’s education simply to put food on the table.”
I haven’t been able to get this article out of my head. I keep wondering, what is going to happen to all those people who live on less than a dollar a day. What happens now when that dollar doesn’t go as far? What happens when you sit there and watch your family begin to hunger beyond what they normally do? I think about my sister and brother-in-law over in Bangladesh and wonder what the people they meet will experience with this rise in the food cost?
Most of all, I wonder what difference this is going to make in the lives and minds of us in the west? Will we lift a finger to do anything about it? Will it actually matter?
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9
What do you think?
~Peter
