Senoufou. You are correct. The definition of poverty in the UK seems to be the inability to afford to watch sky TV. We both well know that countries with inadequate or non-existant social welfare programs have real grinding poverty of which most in the western world have no understanding. Malnutrition, illness, poverty, erratic work opportunities create a cycle from which there is no escape. Couple that with restricted agriculture frequently stressed by drought and everything is in place for periodic famines. Introduce political instability, enrichment of the elite, and war and the outcome is fairly predictable. These problems also exist in the Arab world, yet far less attention is paid to it.

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-persistence-of-poverty-in-the-arab-world/

We have no grounds for complacency concerning our own food security.


https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12571-009-0026-y

We have demonstrations about eating animals, carrying out medical research on them ,or hunting them. People dying of starvation or suffering acute malnutrition a continent away passes unnoticed.
We inhabit a strange world of confused priorities and a collective amnesia.
That Bono and Geldorf are seen as the only ones raising awareness,says a lot for the state of our society and political   structures.