Think about this situation: the sunshine of morning burns by means of a window, forcing you away from bed. You stroll out to the kitchen to make your self a meal, however upon opening each cupboard once more for what appears to be the thousandth time, actuality pummels you all the identical — there’s nothing left to eat.

Each second of your life is enveloped within the concern that your subsequent meal is your final, and the incessant roar of your grumbling abdomen has develop into deaf to your ears. It feels as if time is on loop for you, every day ending in the identical approach: hungry, determined and nonetheless meals insecure.

Each time I convey up a hypothetical state of affairs comparable to this one, I at all times get the same response, that my instance is a superb illustration of starvation or that nobody ought to ever undergo this. But nobody questions my first phrase, “think about.” This situation isn’t just a dystopian fantasy present solely in my head; it’s a reality affecting thousands and thousands of individuals throughout the globe.

Whereas most individuals are unfamiliar with the time period “meals safety,” it’s one thing that everybody has encountered sooner or later of their lives. Whether or not you have been a bystander donating to a meals financial institution, a mum or dad or scholar partaking in a college’s meals drive, or a sufferer who sought refuge in these presents, you have been grappling with a significant part of meals insecurity — starvation, one thing broadly thought of to be a far-world drawback that has little to do with the US