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Feed the World Week, Oct 15-21
from Lokanath Swami
Posted September 16, 2004

What is Feed the World Week?

1. Feed the World Week is based on a simple principle: For one week, the world should experience a wholesome, nonviolent, karma-free diet, which will pave the way for a peaceful and hunger-free world.

2. Feed the World Week is an open community event for raising awareness of the world's chronic hunger problem.

3. Feed the World Week is a call for action: for the world to move away from the meat-based diet that robs the earth of vital resources and leaves billions homeless and hungry.

October 15 through 21 will mark the annual observance of Feed the World Week (FWW). During this week, Food for Life volunteers and other concerned vegetarians in over 60 countries will serve out more than two million karma-free vegetarian meals to the world.

Feed the World Week is an open community event for raising awareness of the world's chronic hunger problem that has seen, for example, 300,000 children die in North Korea in one month.

"Most non-vegetarians are unaware that more than 70 percent of the world's grain production is fed to livestock destined for slaughterhouses," explains Paul Turner, global director of Food for Life. "That same grain could feed humans. Every year, millions of children in the developing world die from hunger, alongside fields of fodder destined for the West's livestock."

In an attempt to correct this imbalance of the earth's resources, Hare Krishna Food for Life volunteer workers daily distribute fifty thousand karma-free meals to the needy of the world.

During Feed the World Week, we share vegetarian food in remembrance of the world's 1.3 billion hungry. "The fact is," says Turner, "if Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10 percent, enough grains would be saved to feed 60 million people."

Visit the Food for Life web page on Feed the World Week: http://www.ffl.org/html/feed_the_world.html

Your servant,
Lokanath Swami

© dipika.org September 16, 2004