But this is not only true in the remote parts of the world, which seems so far away and
beyond our abilities. It is also true in large sections of our cities, where people may appear better
off than those starving in desolate regions of the world, but in actual fact may not have enough to
eat, or enough to eat regularly. In this state of Alabama, for example, 17% of the people live
below the poverty line–almost one in five people! (You would find similar statistics in any state).
Research shows that in many places in the country the only decent meal a lot of children get is in
the school lunchroom; they hardly have enough to eat at home at night or on the weekends. How
can this be when you can go into the grocery stores and see such abundance of food, or drive
down the roads and see the expensive homes and cars everywhere? And isn’t it disturbing to note
that contrary to the problem of poverty we also have a problem with obesity? Something is not
adding up here.