Someone living in a developing country where food is scarce can definitely see the salience in this quote as their life has been significantly halted by their empty stomachs. They understand the pain of not having sufficient food or even any food at all. But it appears as if people in developed countries think differently. Somehow we have it backwards. Here, we starve ourselves, in the hopes to remain thin and might I say attractive. We purposely endure the pains of hunger because someone, somewhere said you would look nicer if you were thinner, and we believe it. Now I am not promoting being overweight, lets just get that straight. I am just saying that maybe developing countries have a better understanding of how full your life can be when our stomach is actually full. Alternatively, there are thousands of children in north America that leave their homes daily on an empty stomach. And when you take a look at their grades, you would definitely understand the correlation with eating a proper meal and absorbing knowledge or attempting to absorb knowledge. More than 13 million children in the United states go to school hungry (17%) Canada, it’s neighbour is not any better with 307,000 (20%) If you reside in Canada, visit 211toronto.ca to find a food bank near you. Children need to eat well so that they can live well.