[hluska]

Feedingamerica.org would be a good place to start. The site is about the difference between poverty and food insecurity. If any place could put to a comprehensive database on outright starvation, that would be it.

I'd argue though that in North America, outright starvation isn't as much of a problem as just having difficulty accessing healthy food. The last stats that I read argue that about 15 million kids in the US experience hunger. They may not be starving, but they will have more trouble learning without adequate adequate nutrition.

[joelrunyon]

I think that would be my complaint too - malnutrition rather than direct starvation.

That said, that has a LOT to do with our guidelines via the FDA and draws down from that moreso than inequality.