"The great World Food Conference in Rome has come and gone," WFB begins,

and we had learned that, while we in the West were eating better than ever before, some two million people were expected to starve to death over the next nine months. "An awesome philosophical question arises: whether the juxtaposition of that plenty and that want are spiritually tolerable. An altogether different question arises: whether, given all the good will in the world, it would be possible to help the needy by taking from the sated." Father Hesburgh had been prominent among those urging the United States to make a serious commitment to sending food abroad. On this show, the duty of the Christian conscience is taken care of in the first couple of paragraphs ("In fact, in the very words of judgment that our Lord uses, he puts it in terms of feeding, and he says, 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat...' "); from then on Father Hesburgh sounds like an agricultural economist, speaking extremely knowledgeably about where the wheat is, why we had been undersupplied the previous year, and how quickly wheat would have to be loaded onto boats to do the starving countries any good.