Feed the World Week (Oct 15 - 21)

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Feed the World Week begins today. From the 15th to 21st of October, Food for Life volunteers and friends will make a concerted effort to encourage the sharing and distribution of pure vegetarian food in an effort to decrease world hunger and humanity's unnecessary dependence on factory farming. "Over forty billion animals are unnecessarily killed every year around the world," says Paul Turner, director of Food for Life Global. "This includes around 100 million chickens daily. The figures are astonishing and ghastly. There is simply no need for all this killing. The earth can easily sustain humankind with fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, nuts and seeds," he explained.

According to the World Food Programme, every five seconds a child dies because she or he is hungry. But amazingly, it is not because of a lack of food in the world, but rather, "inequitable distribution", states a United Nations report. "There is too much greed and poor management of the earth's bounty," said Turner. "Land that could be used for growing food for feeding these children is instead used to grow corn, soybeans and other grains to feed farm animals that are killed and served up to the wealthier nations. All the while, children in developing countries beg for dry rations of processed foods."

Feed the World Week is a time to help correct this gross imbalance and teach the world that if there is one thing that we can all agree on, it is that food speaks all languages. It has the ability to break down barriers, to heal, to inspire, and to make people smile. More than anything else on this planet, food has the ability to unite us. That is why Food for Life Global's slogan is: Uniting the world through pure food. We encourage everyone, everywhere to join with us during this week and discover the magic of sharing food. Prepare a healthy vegetarian meal cooked with love and share it with your neighbor. Distribute pure food to the needy in your area, or go and support a local Food for Life Global affiliate project.

Never underestimate the power of food to change the world. It is the most fundamental expression of love. Make a difference in someone's life this week. You will find that serving brings the greatest pleasure. Do it this week, but do it in the most conscious way possible. Serve only vegetarian meals cooked with love. The highest and purest form of such food is traditionally called "prasadam". You can learn more about that on our prasadam page.

To learn about other ways you can get involved in Feed the World Week, check out our advocacy page.

According to their web site report, WFP provided school meals and/or take home rations to 20.2 million children in 71 countries in 2006. This is certainly laudable, but when you consider that Food for Life Global affiliates are serving over 1 million meals every day during school season, it goes to show just how effective a much smaller NGO with enthusiastic volunteers and a commitment to a much more efficient vegetarian diet can achieve!

Please join us in changing the way the world eats and in doing so bring about real lasting peace and prosperity. Do it now!


Remote Volunteering / Fund Raiser / Activism

Food for Life is encouraging people to give their time in their local area to help raise awareness of FFL's activities and thus raise much needed money. It is really easy to help. Simply print out the following documents and distribute them widely.

• Feed the World Week Donation Flyer (PDF) - Distribute widely to help support FWW
• Green Food Relief Poster (PDF - Take it to your favorite Green business)
• FFL Restaurant Flyer (PDF - Take it to your favorite Veg Restaurant)
• FFL Membership Application (PDF - Print and distribute in your local community)
• New FFL Brochure (PDF - Overview of Food for Life, 2007)
• Orphanage Brochure (PDF - Introduction to Gokulam Orphanage in Sri Lanka)
• Child Sponsor Brochure (PDF - Sponsor a child in Sri Lanka)

Another cool way to help is to add the following email signature to one of your email accounts so that your friends hear about Food for Life.

• Email Signature (Zipped HTML file - Add this signature to all your email message)

All volunteers MUST REGISTER with Food for Life Global

Get your FFL World Map

The FFL World Hunger Map is available for $5 each (plus shipping). Proceeds will go towards supporting FFL projects around the world. Printing is limited, so order today!

Paul Rodney Turner
(a.k.a. Priyavrata das)
Food for Life Global
PO Box 59037
Potomac, MD 20859, USA
Ph: 1 888 816 6977
www.ffl.org