War Against Hunger

There are an estimated 800,000,000 starving people in the world.

The Fiscal Year 2003 US military budget is $396 billion.

If the annual US military budget was reduced by 37% (down to $250 billion a year), the extra $146 billion would provide enough money to feed the entire world’s starving people with three meals a day, every day, every year.

After providing enough food to end hunger on the planet, the remaining US military budget would be $250 billion a year. That amount would still be greater than the combined annual military budgets of France, Germany, Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Italy, North Korea, South Korea, Iran, Israel, Taiwan, Canada, Spain, Australia, the Netherlands, Turkey, Singapore, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Poland, Greece, Argentina, Pakistan, Norway, Kuwait, Denmark, Belgium, Colombia, Egypt, Vietnam, Iraq, Portugal, Libya, the Czech Republic, the Phillipines, Luxembourg, Hungary, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, and Yugoslavia.

Furthermore, the annual US military budget would still be four times larger than Russia’s, the world’s #2 military spender.