I only eat on Fridays ≈ 50,000 people die of hunger each day. A child, every 5 seconds.
Every 5 seconds, as the world devours a McDonald’s french fry starvation consumes a child. The path to this destination of death – contorted. At first, pains of hunger turn to numbness then tissue thin skin clings to the skeleton, like a balloon out of air falls amongst the netting on the circus floor below the high wire of life…. In Costa Rica, 53 years old, he trudges for the 40th consecutive year, the 14,600th consecutive day to the refuse dump where he fights with the other human scavengers – and the rats for rotten, left over morsels to sustain his family. When the garbage truck arrives, a rush like lemmings or vermin avoiding the exterminator to be the first - push to the front when the dump body releases rotting, days old food. Sheltered in a tin covered lean-to, an anxious family awaits having returned from a difficult walk to the stream below - where people 107|Page