And I know that I am not discovering anything new by saying that this is a world of great and unfortunate contrasts; Most of the time we ignore them to avoid feeling regretful or heartless.
The basic needs for survival mark this huge distance between rich and poor countries, but an even more aggravating factor is the lack of a rational dividing line to explain this absurd and disproportionate phenomenon.
Today, in this brand new twenty-first century, we continue to experience hunger figures that would put even the most callous person to shame. Because on a small planet like ours, the fact that there are around twenty percent of people suffering from chronic hunger is nothing to worry about. to die for.
The only thing that allows us to sleep at night is the anonymity of almost a billion souls, which we have no way of chewing on because they lack raw materials, but who seem as if they do not exist in the world because they have no names and surnames. our micro world.
We might innocently think that this is just another piece of news from the tabloid press that wants to spoil the copious amounts of food we eat because we were born here and not there.
The major food convention straddles the two extremes of the world’s obesity rankings; The United States is a leader in obesity compared to Japan, which is the least obese country in the world due to the way it eats. But countries like Ethiopia or Nigeria are weak because they don’t need to put it in their mouths.
Despite our popular Mediterranean diet, which we are quickly abandoning for snacks, industrial pastries and American-style burgers, obesity, especially childhood obesity, continues to rise in Spain.
It is still quite paradoxical that countries that fall into the circle of morbid obesity have to borrow up to their eyelashes to teach their people to eat differently or eat less.
Those at the opposing extreme have to wage an untold struggle to reinvent a diet that could prevent their citizens from dying of pure starvation, having neither the economic nor the solidarity means to propose a minimally reasonable solution.
Recently, we have been witnessing a kind of social compensation for obese people who claim their right to gain weight and are happy about it. While the rich boast about the pleasure of gaining weight, we continue to see images of emaciated children dying of hunger and malnutrition. If justice truly existed – divine, human or extraterrestrial – it would be impossible.