The Hunger Site
Posted by SilentCricket on Dec 31, 2006 · Member since Jul 2006 · 141 posts
Have any of you ever heard of this?
Thought I'd share - it's an interesting concept, and takes only a few seconds. :)
The World's Largest Collection of Vegetarian Recipes
Thanks for the post. I remember visiting this site a lot in high school because a lot of students were talking about it. I am always skeptical if this really does work and if a simple click really does donate 1.1 cup of food. But there's nothing to lose even if it doesn't do as it says.
On another note, do you think homelessness would be as big of a problem if most people were vegans, since it takes more food and land to produce meat? This land could be used to produce more grains and beans since it takes less land to produce these crops. Just curious on everyone's stand.
Homelessness is not caused by lack of housing due to lack of space. It is due to competitive housing markets that push lower income people into finding cheaper residences. This is from personal experience. When a dual income family can't afford rent (like the cheapest being around $1000 a month for an extremely small apartment 2 bedroom, when you need a 3.), you get a homeless problem.
Cheap affordable housing can be done on the land already available in the towns and cities, only if someone would go in and actually start caring about the properties that are empty.
The city where my family ended up homeless twice (only because of the above reason, no other) the down town area was full of buildings that had the first floor rented out to businesses, and the upper stories empty. Even turning them into upper class apartments would be help, because the people that could afford them, and probally want to live closer to work, would not be pushing the rents higher in the lower income, family areas.
We moved to another town that is doing just that and the housing market is working. In fact the land lords are competing to keep renters. We still have a homeless problem, but this one is due to drug abuse and mental problems of the homeless. Which could be dealt with by increasing the services to help those people.
What you could do to help the homeless is volunteer at the shelters and make vegetarian meals. Believe me, even in the shelter that was the best one (very proactive, helped more than just baby sat the families there) the food gets boring fast. Pasta dishes and bread are the mainstay. Barely any meat, or beans.
Showing families that eating vegetarian is a great money saver, our food bill has dropped since switching, would help with getting some families back on their feet too.
Unfortunately homelessness is not something that you want happen to you, but when it does it is a big eye opener. Especially when you are doing everything "right" (working, staying off drugs, not a criminal) and you are forced out because the landlords in the area know they can get a person in their apartment that will pay twice as much as you can afford.
Sorry this ending up being a rant, but it something my family never wants to go through again. I am glad we were able to move and get out of that situation. But a lot of people don't have that option.
oops! My mistake! :-[instead of homelessness, I meant to say world hunger.Would hunger be as big of a problem if most people were vegans? I don't know what I was thinking when I was typing. sorry!
I agree with the hunger point. Just reducing your meat intake is a step in the right direction.
I'm sorry to hear about that, leapetra. =/ Have you ever heard of those "be homeless for a week" experiences? I did an abbreviated version of that - only three days - so while I can't comprehend what's it's truly like to be homeless, I can appreciate the beauty of a meatless meal in a homeless shelter! (I was vegetarian at the time) Oh, and most of the people I talked to in the Washington D.C. area were homeless because they could not afford rent. They had full time jobs and usually another part time job, and barely made enough for food and clothing. *sigh* I still remember the people I met, even years later.
As for the food, I'm slightly mixed. I don't believe everyone in the world will become vegan or vegetarian, and I don't think that our views -should- be shared by everyone in the world. I just wish that animals could be killed in, say, the kosher way. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they must die in less than a second, must not have felt pain in death, and couldn't be tortured/have sores. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this would mean the Torah/Old Testament way of killing animals would be almost completely cruelty-free.
I do believe, however, that the majority of the world -should- eat more plants and less meat. There are certain areas of the world that could only be useful as grazing pasture, but the long flat open expanses of fertile land? 30lbs of soybeans definitely beats 5lbs. (or something like that, can't remember the quote) of meat.
Thanks for the post. I remember visiting this site a lot in high school because a lot of students were talking about it. I am always skeptical if this really does work and if a simple click really does donate 1.1 cup of food. But there's nothing to lose even if it doesn't do as it says.
On another note, do you think homelessness would be as big of a problem if most people were vegans, since it takes more food and land to produce meat? This land could be used to produce more grains and beans since it takes less land to produce these crops. Just curious on everyone's stand.
I think that if everyone were vegan world hunger wouldn't be as great as it is today.
maybe completly wiped out but thats not ever gonna happen. :/
I am always skeptical if this really does work and if a simple click really does donate 1.1 cup of food.
http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa/263/wo/aC2000dO100cP60026/1.0.45.1.3.0.1.0.31.0.CustomContentLinkDisplayComponent.0.0
I certainly hope it's legit... sounds that way to me?