{"id":1173,"date":"2018-05-06T23:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T23:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2018-05-06T23:19:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T23:19:36","slug":"entitled-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/05\/06\/entitled-eaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Entitled Eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For most of us in the developed world eating comes naturally. A lot of us even eat more than we need to, I know I do. I tend to just eat anything whenever I feel like it even if I\u2019m not hungry. I just like chewing and tasting, what can I say? If food is placed in front of me, I can\u2019t stop myself from eating it (even if it\u2019s a raisin that I\u2019m supposed to savor for a contemplative practice). Whatever we\u2019re in the mood for we go right to the store and get it, or we can just have Postmates deliver it to us. Unfortunately it is not that simple for everyone. While I\u2019m sitting in class thinking about how I get to eat lunch once we are dismissed, about 21,000 people die from hunger or malnutrition, and that\u2019s just in one day, in a year it\u2019s closer to 9 million deaths. With there being extreme examples of food scarcity in many regions of the world, many go hungry because they are not able to harvest enough crops. They don\u2019t have the option to just pop into their nearest Safeway and buy groceries for dinner, and even if that were an option they would not be able to afford it when many have less than two dollars to spend on food <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">per week. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I spend more than that for one snack, it would be impossible for me to last the week. I wish I could say that these contemplative practices have made me change my ways, but they haven\u2019t. Opened my eyes, yes, but given the fact that I just ate an entire bag of chips in one sitting I would say that I am not very sympathetic to the situation. World hunger is a serious problem that has plagued society for countless years and it\u2019s going to take more than one entitled nineteen-year-old to put an end to the devastation, but if enough people cared then there is potential for change. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of us in the developed world eating comes naturally. A lot of us even eat more than we need to, I know I do. I tend to just eat anything whenever I feel like it even if I\u2019m not hungry. I just like chewing and tasting, what can I say? If food is placed in front of me,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/05\/06\/entitled-eaters\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}