In this work, former Democratic senator George McGovern describes his strategy to end world hunger in our time. He raises two central questions: what would it cost for the nations of the world to end hunger?; and what would be the cost if hunger is allowed to persist at its present levels?
In The Third Freedom, former three-term Democratic senator George McGovern describes his strategy to end world hunger in our time. When McGovern was the Democrats' nominee for president in 1972, 35 percent of the people in the world were hungry. By 1996, that figure was cut in half. Now, McGovern says, is the time to end world hunger entirely. "Ending it (hunger)," he says, "is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments in hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost."
