I hate to even use the word conspiracy, as it lays claim that someone or some group is doing something malicious on purpose and trying to cover it up. But the more I see campaigns surrounding feeding the hungry, the more I feel something weird going on beneath the surface.
I’m not denying there are people that don’t get enough food or there are many that go to bed hungry. But are Americans really dying from starvation? Hunger and starvation are different beasts. Is there a problem that is bigger but being brushed under the carpet? Is the media tugging at our heart strings to appease the people that pay their salaries?
Back in 2012, there was a report in Lancet (a British Medical Journal), called the Global Burden of Disease that reported obesity as now a bigger problem than hunger, except for sub-Sahara Africa. This report also has a LOT of controversy around it. I haven’t dug too deep but I think there’s one industry that is the spear head of the controversy, or dare I say it…conspiracy.