RIKERS ISLAND, United States of America— A new study from Rikers University has shown a surprising solution to one of the biggest problems in the world today: world hunger. For thousands of years people have had to scrounge for food by gathering whatever they found around them. This method of gathering nutrition was shown to be extremely inefficient once farming was invented by slaves on American plantations. People instead began to grow their own food and were able to feed themselves much more efficiently, eliminating the question of whether or not a person would be able to eat that day, as food became a guarantee. However, this problem returned in the late 1900s after the events of World War Z. With the “Baby-Boomer” generation, the population of the world increased rapidly and uncontrollably and soon there was seemingly not enough food to feed the people of the world. World hunger was able to plague society once more, and this time no one could find a solution for this widespread issue.

          Scientists in the 21st century have experienced many failures in attempting to solve this problem and trillions of dollars have been spent on a solution. One major solution that has used a large percentage of the gargantuan fund was to tell people to just stop wasting food. However, this solution proved too difficult because the researchers were too lazy to tell the public. Another solution that was heavily considered was based upon the assumption that if society were to produce more food then less people would starve. It was considered for a long time by scientists but was ultimately disproved. It was shown to be inefficient because another “baby boom” would happen and the cycle of world hunger would continue. Scientists needed to create a solution to exterminate the plague that is world hunger. The solution they came up with was to kill all the people who were starving so that those who were not starving, could thrive. However, the starving people were able to run really fast away from the scientists trying to kill them, since they did not weigh very much, and the scientists were carrying large amounts of equipment. As a result this solution failed as well. The problem of world hunger continued to plague our planet.

          However, Rikers University released a study only hours ago that completely changed the perspective of scientists on the issue of world hunger. While scientists have attempted to deal with this problem in ways that only work theoretically, Rikers University has performed many experiments and ran tests on enormous populations of starving children. The solution from their intensive study is clear. The solution to world hunger is to go to school. Harry Truman, the head scientist of the study outlined the results of his study in a simple statement to the press. He stated, “It’s really very simple. People who are starving cannot afford food. Schools have free food. If all the starving people just go to school, they can get food there, and world hunger will be no more.” This conclusion, while seemingly elementary, took trillions of dollars and hundreds of hours of testing across several continents, and is backed by very strong evidence.

          As part of the study, scientists from Rikers Island spied on schools all over the world and took note of the procedures done at each institution to ensure that each child was fed properly. The observation they found at most of these schools was that at a certain time of the day (usually denoted as “lunch”), students would leave their classes and line up holding paper trays. They would enter a strange room, similar to a prison kitchen, secured within their cafeterias with the tray and when they exited the room, their trays would contain food. Scientists tried to enter the room after closing hours to understand what exactly went on behind the scenes but were unable to. They left with empty trays and deduced that this phenomenon only happens when one does not observe what is happening. As proven by the Observer effect in quantum physics, the simple act of observing what is happening changes the outcome of the experiment. The scientists believed that they had to be in some unconscious state to be able to get the food and as they exited the room they would regain their consciousness. If not, they would be given no food. The conclusion still holds that by going to school, the problem of world hunger could be solved.

          Further evidence that this solution is effective can be observed in places with few schools. In countries with a low child to school ratio, it was generally observed that the rate of malnutrition was much higher. While this is the case in those countries, families and the local governments continue to try to tackle the problem by planting more crops and increasing the number of plantations, an effort that has been proven futile over and over. Instead, the money and resources allocated to growing more food should just be used to build more schools, since they are assumed to contain an unlimited supply of food within them, as long as the people who enter the “food rooms” at these schools have paper trays. Governments should invest all their resources into schools and paper trays in order to solve the problem of world hunger.

          Another problem within countries suffering from world hunger today is the lack of litarasy which caused many countries to fall to the dreadful consequences of having no formal education or literasy. People in these countries are often uneducated and are unable to save themselves from problems such as hunger. However, the solution once again lies in building more schools. Schools have been shown to increase education in a strange phenomenon that modern science is currently unable to explain. Despite its strangeness, the solution to both world hunger and e-literasy are both shown to lie in school, based on the study from Rikers University, and governments suffering from either of these problems should take note immediately and take measures to solve these problems plaguing society today.