Malnutrition

I have in the past, and will in the future, bang on about the number of Mexican Government security personnel and bystanders killed by drug cartel violence.  However, there is a bigger killer in Mexico and it is something that should be an embarrassment to all of us here in North America.  It is malnutrition, as shown in this brief report.  The death rate in Mexico from Malnutrition is 13.4 per 100,000 people, compared to 1.0 for the United States, and 0.7 for Canada.  My sources for those numbers is here.  They must be true, I found them on the Internet.

Here is the lede from the article:

A total of 85,343 people died "due to malnutrition" in Mexico between 2001 and 2010, a period during which another 49,804 victims were slain by organized crime gangs, according to official figures released [last week].

On the other hand, in the same period we killed about 400,000 in auto accidents—granted we have a population of 313 million, to Mexico's 112 million.

Regards  —  Cliff