{"id":43,"date":"2008-04-21T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/2008\/04\/21\/the-solution-lies-within-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2008-04-21T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T16:30:00","slug":"the-solution-lies-within-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/the-solution-lies-within-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The solution lies within the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:arial\">I did a Web search recently, typing in phrases like \u201c<strong>definition of hunger<\/strong>.\u201d It was interesting in the vast worldwide Web the lack of coherent information I found on such a broad topic. I received the obligatory links to Merriam-Webster.com and other encyclopedic or dictionary-based sites, but only one source (at quick glance) led me past a one- or two-line description of what hunger is.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\">I discovered a report entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www7.nationalacademies.org\/cnstat\/Concept_and_Definition_of_Hunger_Paper.pdf\">The Concept and Definition of Hunger and Its Relationship to Food Insecurity<\/a>\u201d by David H. Holben, PhD, RD, LD on the Web site of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS is an honor society of distinguished scholars\u2014many of whom are Nobel Prize winners\u2014doing scientific and engineering research to increase our general welfare. It was born during the Civil War and signed into existence by President Lincoln with the Act of Incorporation. Its research is valued so highly by the U.S. government that Congress and the White House have issued legislation and executive orders to reaffirm its unique role.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\">This report cites such definitions of <span style=\"color:#000000\">hunger as \u201cthe uneasy or painful sensation caused by a lack of food\u201d or \u201cthe recurrent and involuntary lack of access to food.\u201d These definitions are not groundbreaking. But what strikes<\/span> me is the lesser-discussed definition of hunger within the circles we walk: <strong><span style=\"color:#6600cc\">\u201ca strong desire for something.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><br \/><em>Sometimes the solution lies within the problem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Making the news again lately are the dirt cookies that people in Haiti eat because of the rising cost of food and people\u2019s growing inability to afford it, turning to government protest and acts of desperation. So what is it in us that hungers to combat this problem? If we have a \u201cstrong desire\u201d to end world hunger, then we cannot help but be hungry ourselves: hungry for justice, hungry for socioeconomic changes, hungry for progress in the movement to end world hunger once and for all!<\/p>\n<p>Among those who work to end this pandemic, it is a fine line to walk to say we, too, should be \u201chungry.\u201d But if we aren\u2019t, then the people we advocate for will be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">&#8212;<strong>Aaron Cooper<\/strong> is Writer-Editor for ELCA World Hunger<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a Web search recently, typing in phrases like \u201cdefinition of hunger.\u201d It was interesting in the vast worldwide Web the lack of coherent information I found on such a broad topic. 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