Is National Whipped Cream Day Insensitive to World Hunger?

National Whipped Cream Day. Sounds pretty sweet.

Many people in America are apparently celebrating the holiday, which was established sometime after 1954, in well-meaning and good-natured jest. But the obscure occasion being popularized today by the Internet's viral forces is also the subject of harsh criticism.

Given all the starvation in the world, some argue, an American celebration of whipped cream is in bad taste.

Take, for instance, the following two tweets.

RT Whipped Cream has its own National Holiday in America. The rest of the world still faces starvation and famine http://wttrend.com/179711less than a minute ago via webPetrina Engelke
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Its National Whipped Cream Day in America, the only country where every food has its own holiday.less than a minute ago via ÜberTwitterTerry Lawerence
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Which begs the question: Is National Whipped Cream Day insensitive to world hunger?

Surge Desk offers a few facts on U.S. food consumption and world hunger, and lets you be the judge:

World hunger was measured at nearly a billion hungry people worldwide in 2010, according to worldhunger.org.
Only 19 million of those people live in developed countries.
Sixty-five percent of the planet's hungry people live in just seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
In a recent Economic Research Service study by the U.S. Agriculture Department, of the 3,800 calories of food used per American per day, 1,000 calories were lost to plate waste, spoilage and other losses.
American food consumption has expanded over 16 percent since 1970.

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