responces to hunger

Although hunger and starvation are prevalent in our nation, Americans have turned their backs to this problem. We have turned our backs because we have been conditioned and desensitized by the media, to the issue of hunger. Classical conditioning is “the process by which a stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit a response through association with a stimulus that already elicits a similar or related response.” Classical conditioning is like the famous case of Pavlov’…

…flavor. We start out eating pureed peas, progress to hamburgers and soda, and finally end up eating pork rinds and drinking barley pop. We push the sensory envelope as we become desensitized. From my earliest memories I remember watching commercials of famine struck nations, with people in dire need of help. At one time I am sure that I was shocked at this atrocity but now I, like many others, flip right by such programs.