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Are there people with inadequate food consumption in Singapore?
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/food-insecurity-singapore-hunger-poverty-12438646
Watch the video below entitled ‘Chicken Ala Carte’
i. What is the issue? What are the related issues?
ii. What do you think is the purpose of this video? What evidence is shown in the video to support the issue?
iii. What are the possible consequences of the issues found in the video? (i.e., social and economic consequences)
iv. Whose points of view is represented?
The following impacts of food consumption that can be inferred from the video:
· Food wastage
· Malnutrition
· Starvation
· Scavenging
· Economic (lowered productivity and diversion of financial resources to health care)
Another video showing the social impact of inadequate food consumption in Manila, Philippines. Pagpag recycled meat:
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Taken in Sudan, 1993, this was a haunting image of how people suffered in famine. The smell of death has lured the vulture to the girl.
A picture tells a thousand words.
What is happening to the girl?
Why is the vulture there?
Where is this place?
When did this happen?
How has the people responded to the situation?
Look at the maps below on where the children and people are suffering from malnutrition.
Malnutrition contributes to nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 and is widespread in Asia and Africa
Percentage of children under 5 who are malnourished, 2010–2016
Source: UNICEF, WHO, World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition dataset, September 2016 update
Do you think such situation still exist in the world now? Look at the hunger map below.
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