Some of these children do go without food at home, and most of them come without breakfast to school.

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L.A. has the highest number of people who regularly go without food than any other county in the nation.

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While many millions go without food, one-third of the food produced in the world (which amounts to 1.3 billion tons per year) becomes landfill.

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Cheryl and Michael Chapman live in a three-bedroom council house in Welwyn Garden City and said they would go without food to keep their son's room.

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Last week, the U.N. warned that the loss of NGOs in Sudan would cause 1.1 million people to go without food aid and health care, and more than 1 million to have no access to water.

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Mr Borlaug called them naysayers and elitists, who had never known hunger but thought, for the health of the planet, that the poor should go without good food.

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His conqueror, Hernando Cortes, asserted in 1528 that a single cup enabled a warrior to go all day without food.

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The human body, I knew, could go up to three weeks without food.

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Mr O'Donnell said that in the wild, Stanley could go for up to 10 days without food so they were not too worried he would starve, but they were concerned he could be injured if he landed on a power cable.

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