Should the US help fight Hunger in other countries.

Essay by gloriousbeck7High School, 10th grade November 2003

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To Help or Not

The United States has moral, political, and medical obligation to help underfed and undernourished people in countries. Countries around the world have millions of people who are starving and unable to feed their people for many different reasons. The United States, the only country that could help other countries without causing hardships

For its self, should help.

The people of the United States have a moral obligation to help feed the world. In every faith that is practiced in America, people are told to the feed the hungry. It is wrong to watch people starve and die, when you can feed them. The States make more food in one harvest season than a third world country can produce all year and with that, it would be morally wrong for our government to waste food when have so much that could be used to feed people who cannot feed themselves.

Second reason for America to feed poor countries is for political reasons. When the government sends food to countries that need it help, it's great for America and makes us look good. The United States may use the food as a deterrent and keep the people in line and not causing trouble. When other nations see what how were are trying help, we gain there favor and they help us in international politics. Overall, the United States have many different political reasons helping end hunger.

The third reason for the U.S. to help feed other countries is medically. One reason for helping feed other countries is to end starvation. Death caused by underfed people can cause diseases and affect the people living in that part of the country. With all the death being caused by undernourished people, it will hit the population size very hard. The medical...