What We're All About...

Welcome to our blog. At World Hunger Team, we're concerned with one thing and one thing only: generating food to feed the hungry. Whether it's 1 lb. of tomatoes in Detroit or 1 ton of soybeans in New Delhi, we simply want to increase the amount of available food to feed hungry humans.

That's it.

One in 8 human beings on this planet goes to bed hungry, every night. All the talk, the rhetoric, the 'well meaning intentions' are just noise; they're meaningless to the guy who cannot feed his family. They're worthless to the kid with a grumbling belly who dreams of a full meal. And they're not only meaningless, they're fighting words to the people in depressed countries who wonder why the rich people get all the food.

Feeding these people IS our responsibility. To quote the late Senator Ted Kennedy from a statement he made 35 years ago:

"Two hundred years from now, will people ask, "What was wrong with us?" We had exceptional prosperity, exceptional bounty, exceptional resources. Will they say, "They had the opportunity to do something about hunger, and they refused to address it?"

World Hunger Team is all about doing something, whatever you can do, to move the needle; to make a change, however small, that advances the cause of solving world hunger.

I believe that we can do more than 'move the needle'. We can enact widespread change in the way people view food, how we grow food, how we prepare food, how we distribute food. We can do it using good old-fashioned American ingenuity. And we can do it on a shoestring budget. Which is the way things used to be done in this country - and the way we can do them again.

Randall Putala
Founder and CEO, World Hunger Team