Andrea - My father-in-law, a surgeon, always said that minor surgery is only minor if its not happening to you.  I'll tell you when hunger becomes a crisis.  Its when it is you or your community that is hungry.  So, if it is indeed the media that raises the level of awareness, then commentators, camera crews, and tech people need to be hungry for awhile.  I don't think that's the answer however. 

The question for me is this:  Why does a need have to be labeled a crisis to attract notice?  If we actually know our neighbors (not just the ones down the block but also consider and treat people we don't know as sisters and brothers) then we don't need a crisis to respond.  I see those kind of personal responses going on all the time.  They just don't get the press.

The real call to action is that of changing the entire way we think of community, money, and justice. As long as our main goal as a society is to have cheap goods while at the same time rewarding those who handle our financial system, our celebrities, and our big businesses with millions/billions, then there will be poor and hungry people all around us.  There are so many 'as long as....' statements I can't begin to delineate them here. 

In short, those of us who are not hungry need to have less food availble because we are sharing not just our extra but what we actually eat.  Those of us who think we have more than enough because we've worked hard for it and deserve it need to wake up.  And those of us who believe that a few cans of food shared at Thanksgiving time will be the solution to the millions of people who are hungry around us, need to grow up and enter the real world.

Ramona

why does it matter? to me, it doesn't. what does is how we want to do about it. end it!? so try the best to do it.