poverty

so it's really late and i'm supposed to be doing my essay that is due tomorrow right now but i'm reading an article about China and its food supply. This article is kind of old (1995) but the numbers still make me kind of sad. In Shanghai, the population is rich and populous, people buy 60kg of meat, eggs, and fish annually. The national average is 40 kg and in the poorer provinces in China, only 20 kg. More statistics say that in 1994 12 million people live in desperate poverty, spending two-thirds of their income on food, but they were still malnourish. 12 million... that's 4 times the population of Canada? and that's "desperate" poverty.. what about those that are just living on borderline poverty... idunno how far off these statistics ARE but i don't doubt that the number of people living in poverty is very high. and it reaallly really rreallly breaks my heart... i should be so much more thankful that i can go to a cafeteria and buy food whenever i want. that i have more than enough money on my watcard. i don't wnat to be biased because i know a lot of people are living in poverty out there but i guess because these numbers are so staggering and i'm reading about it so much for this essay :S it's just heart breaking and because i want to work in China this is closer to my heart than many other things.
i don't want to become dissensitized to these things and overlook them and read about it and forget about it because we always hear about it... gotta remember to pray for these thins as well. well back to my essay..