Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

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    21 hours ago

    Moving military funds into food aid would be extra effective considering that world hunger is largely created by military spending.

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      8 hours ago

      Yup.

      Wall street destroy 7 times as much wealth as they extract from us.

      Military’s unfathomably more times than that.

      Poverty’s very expensive too.

      So even a little shifted from military to ending poverty (especially hunger & starvation), moves the line on the graph substantially.

      To the prosperity of each and all.