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01/18/2006:

"Hunger in the Midst of Plenty"

While the celebrations on the eve of 2006 were going on all over the world and the people with means were bursting crackers, drinking champagne and dancing enthusiastically, one person was desperately reminding them of widespread incidence of poverty all around. Almost all television channels except TV5, a French language Canadian channel, ignored him and his message. Perhaps they did not think it pleasant to remind the revellers that there were hundreds of millions of people all over the world going without food and at least 100,000 people were dying every day of hunger and malnutrition-related diseases. This person was no other than redoubtable Jean Ziegler, a professor of economics at University of Geneva and Sorbonne, Paris.
zmag.org