NEW DELHI: Much like late Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s call for a weekly fast during the era of food shortage in the mid-sixties, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Thursday appealed for a day-long worldwide hunger strike against chronic hunger.
“We are suggesting that everyone in the world who wants to show solidarity with the one billion hungry people on this planet go on hunger strike next Saturday or Sunday,” FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said on the eve of the World Food Summit, beginning on November 16 in Rome. “I shall personally begin a 24-hour fast on Saturday morning,” he added.