Today is Blog Action Day, an annual event uniting bloggers all over the world by posting about the same issue on the same day. This year, Blog Action Day coincides with World Food Day, so it only makes sense that our topic is food. When I think of food, two basic problems come to mind:

1. A lot of people in developing (and developed) countries don't have enough access to food and nutrition.
2. A lot of people in developed countries choose not to get enough food and nutrition.

Rather than throw a bunch of statistics at you, I'm going to keep it simple. You already know these are two big issues we face. We go about our lives while our brothers and sisters are starving in other countries. At the same time, we've stopped looking at food as nourishing fuel for our bodies, and have started stuffing ourselves silly with the cheapest food we could engineer, yet still suffer from malnutrition.

1,500 or so bloggers have taken time out to write and spread awareness today. I encourage you to take a little time out of your day to think about these two problems. Then take action. I implore you to do just one small thing to help the food and famine problems today. Just one baby step. Here are some ideas if you don't know what to do:

• Pick up a copy of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food or Nina Planck's Real Food
• Sign One.org's petition to fund Feed the Future
• Donate money to any organization that feeds the hungry
• Sign up to volunteer at the soup kitchen
• Skip the supermarket and fast food and shop at your local farmers market
• Talk to your kids about healthy food and cook with them tonight
• Watch a documentary on food and nutrition, like Food, Inc.
• Make a Kiva loan in the food sector
• Go without industrial meat today
• Spread awareness to your networks

And once you've done one baby step, why stop there? Food is a universal need, it binds us all together. Everyone deserves a real, nutritious meal, and so many of us aren't getting one. What are you going to do about it?