1. We hope this has you thinking about food in a new way. We don’t usually think about food from a faith perspective. ©2015 Catholic Relief Services. All Rights Reserved. US15109

2. We don’t think about food from a faith perspective! Yet, 3 million children die from hunger each year! Perhaps it is time we should consider our relationship with food when looking at the issue of hunger!

3. Over 800 million people will go to bed hungry tonight. 98% of them live in developing countries.

4. Is what we eat just food? Or is it JUST food?

5. Gospel Challenge Jesus call us to take care of the most vulnerable in our midst.

6. Option for the Poor & Vulnerable Food is a basic human right! Photo by Lane Hartill for CRS

7. U.S. Bishops to Congress: “Food is a basic need and a fundamental human right; yet one in eight people around the world go hungry every day, even in our own country. This is an injustice that we can and must help to change.” Photo by Ted Miles for CRS

8. Catholic Relief Services, the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic Church and the sponsor of our FoodFast, knows something about hunger. CRS represents all of us through its work of serving the poor in over 100 countries around the world.

9. A core objective for CRS is to contribute to solutions that end hunger. Through school feeding, agricultural, environmental improvement programs, and the like, CRS tries to increase food security for people living in poverty—in other words, making sure people have access to enough food and healthy food to sustain themselves and their families. Photo by Charlie David Martinez for CRS

10. Our choices about food have moral consequences.

11. What does it mean to have a right relationship with food?

12. Eating to Live, not Living to Eat

13. Paying Attention to… Where our food comes from Who brings it to our table Photo by Heidi Yanulis for CRS

14. Exploring … How much food we buy How much we eat How much we throw away How these habits affect us How these habits affects others

15. Caring for God’s Creation Looking at the connection between our eating habits and how they affect the environment

16. Food Health The quality o Does it give us energy? o Does it contribute vital nutrients to our bodies? The quantity o Is it too much? o Is it enough? o Do we share our abundance?

17. Between what we eat and what people who are hungry eat! Between how we eat and how people who are hungry eat! How often every day? Where (home, restaurant, school, etc.)? Explore the Relationship … Photo by Ted Miles for CRS

18. Paying attention to the God-given gift that natural food is and appreciating it Savoring it—the texture, color, flavor Eating Mindfully

19. Pope Francis “We have created a ‘throwaway’ culture which is now spreading. In this way life too is discarded.” Audience with Italian Movement for Life April 11, 2014