End World Hunger! Eat An American!

It is estimated that at least 1/3 of the adults in the United States can be considered obese (at least 30 pounds overweight or heavier). As of 2009 not a single state could meet the rather modest goal of an obesity rate of only 15%. It is projected that by 2018 obesity related health problems will cost the America health care system around 344 billion dollars every year, and that by 2019/2020 the obesity rate will rise from around 33% to around 43%. In rather startling contrast in 2009 around 925 million people world wide were considered to be “living in hunger”. Due to world economic crisis and the rising cost of food that number is expected to do nothing but rise. Could it be that on problem could solve the other? The proposal of cannibalism as a method of impeding an epidemic of hunger is no new idea. I'm sure every ones familiar with Johnathan Swift's “A Modest Proposal”. The problem is when Johnathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal it was 1729 in Ireland. His solution to eat the children was quaint but we live in a global community now where our every action as a a nation has a ripple effect unlike anything Swift or Ireland for that matter could ever imagine. If we are to keep our positions as the light of civilization and leader of the free world we will have to look beyond our own national problems and to the ones we face as a globe. How can that be done though? How can we act in such a way that would solve one of the world's most daunting dilemmas while at the same time not putting any strain on ourselves and our resources? Well if nearly a billion people around the world need food and we have millions of obese citizens isn't that a win win? Right now we are a country with hundreds of millions of pounds of good meat just going to waste. I know some of you may have some moral opposition to cannibalism but wait, it wouldn't be us eating them. It would be all those little hungry people of the world. The benefits would be enormous. We could substantially lower health care costs over time and prove to the world we are a country that can lead the world in the new century. We are a country with the people and the resources needed to get those tough jobs done, and just think of the those starving people. Right now there are nearly a billion people who are going to die unnecessarily all because people can't understand what a good idea this is. If you do not act to help implement this plan, if you reject this “modern proposal” then all you are saying is “I don't care about the starving people. Let them die I'm going to Dennys”. Worst than that though you are betraying America and the future children of America. It will be them who have to work to pay those massive healthcare costs, it is them who won't have insurance, it is the children who will suffer and the obese who will fill our hospitals. Every second we don't act is another second a child dies when all that was needed to save him was the single leg of a citizen of Mississippi.