LIFE’S TURNING POINT
Twelve of thirty-two conscientious objectors who volunteered for a starvation experiment in 1945 recently met for a reunion in St. Petersburg, Florida. They each lost a fourth to a third of their body weight in six months to help relief agencies study how to rehabilitate hungry people after World War II. The two volume report on the study, “Human Starvation,” has become a classic source for hundreds of textbooks. Most of the thirty-two later earned graduate degrees and pursued careers in human services. At the reunion they agreed that the experiment was the most important experience of their lives; that starving people become selfish, hostile, depressed and ultimately lethargic and submissive; and that bread, not ideologies such as democracy or religion, is the priority issue for hungry people. From The Gospel Herald
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