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What’s Wrong with Our Food System?
Around the world every night, one in seven people go to bed hungry—that’s almost one billion people. People are hungry not because there isn’t enough food produced but because our food system is broken. In fact, 80% of the world’s hungry are directly involved in food production. We can address this hunger if we support small-scale food producers, tackle climate change, and reduce food waste. Check out our latest infographic to learn about some of the ways that the food system can be fixed to improve the quality of life for millions.
5 Comments on "What’s Wrong with Our Food System?"
BillT on Fri, 4th May 2012 3:20 pm
Now this I can agree with. Get rid of corporate farms. Raise the price in developed countries so that it is not wasted. Help the developing world to build infrastructure to get more of their product to customers. It will NOT be wasted by them, I can guarantee that.
Nah! What was I thinking? Big Ag doesn’t want that to happen, that is why it hasn’t been done already. It would hurt the 10 corporations that sell most of the brands you eat. You would be surprised how these 10 corporations produce and sell most of the food in the world.
Kenz300 on Fri, 4th May 2012 3:59 pm
Over population is the elephant in the room. The world added a billion more people in the last 12 years and continues to grow. We have too many people and too few resources. The worlds resources are finite. Never ending population growth makes solving the worlds food problems harder and only leads to move poverty, suffering and despair.
Cabra1080 on Fri, 4th May 2012 6:02 pm
What’s wrong with our food system? EVERYTHING!!! The so-called food system in America is a joke. Enormous food waste, excessive processing, poor nutritional content, an overbearing beef lobby that pushes meat consumption way too high and factory farms are just a few of the many things wrong in USA. The rest of the world isn’t having a good day in the food business, either.
First, there are way too many people on the earth and that is a nasty problem to have. The Green Revolution is not sustainable because there are too many mouths to feed and not enough water to irrigate that much cropland. Worse off, the Green Revolution depends heavily on fossil fuels for fertilizer and power which are being rapidly depleted.
Factory farms are a total disgrace to God, the planet and the poor animals being treated in such horrific manner.
More vegetarians and vegans would help out here a lot since plant based diets are healthier, do not harm animals in disgusting manners and has a much lower footprint on the environment in many ways. However, I doubt many people in high flying western nations will reduce their meat consumption anytime soon, especially thanks to the big meat lobby that ran Opra Windfrey into the ground and assured continued meat consumption for generations to come [until it all collapses].
Monsanto wants to patent everything God made and assure us a future full of pesticides, factory farms and genetically altered “food like substances” loaded with preservatives and crammed down our throats.
When it comes to the “Food System”, we are all screwed, period. Only those who grow, process and COOK their own organic food are doing OK these days and may have a shot at a good future with good health and vitality. That is, until some of that genetically altered pollen comes to settle on your crop and Monsanto sues you and has you locked up. ..
We’re all screwed.
DC on Fri, 4th May 2012 10:18 pm
We had boatloads of hungry people when the world population was 1 billion, then 2, then 4. Now were at 7 billion, and guess…STILL BOATLOADS of hungry people, just a lot more of them. Well have 2 or 3 billion people when Global populations hit 10 billion. Nothing changes. We could have fed everyone a century ago, 75 years ago, 50, and even today, though tbh, it only encourages more mouths to feed down the road.
But …we never did, because the system doesnt care if everyone is fed. Just like it doesnt care about a clean enviroment, corruption, industrial pollution or endless wars. As long as amerika exports heavilty subsidized mono-crops to 3rd world countries via co-ercive ‘free-trade’ agreements that destroy local Ag and self-sufficency, people are going to stay hungry. My country is totally capable of being food-self sufficent, yet increasingly imports amerikan toxic-crud and our politicans seeks to dismantle egg and milk and wheat boards, so that amerikans can flood the country with there cheap hormone and chemical laden garbage. Thats why people go hungry and local ag is destroyed.
Kenz300 on Sun, 6th May 2012 1:52 pm
Every country needs to develop a plan to balance population with resources, food, water, energy and jobs. If you can not provide for yourself you can not provide for a child.