Food is on people`s mind.
Here are three questions that have come recently about food.
If it is true that the world produces enough food to feed its population, why is it there is famine in places like Africa?
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I believe that given a choice, many people would not opt for the huge abundance of non-stop junk food waved under their noses every second of the day. If that food could be re-directed or if portion sizes could be selected case by case, we could even out the food distribution pattern. Marketing has been the curse but it could also be the saviour. Where are the enlightened food chains that cater not only to their daily customers, but also to the global village? Could we charge for waste in restaurants and give people an opportunity to exercise self-control and their humanity? through sharing.
It's because of the economics of the world... where people can afford to buy junk food all the junk food chains go (in other words the food follows the money) and especially recently every other place is too expensive fuel-wise to ship food to. I would love to see an "enlightened food chain" as Patricia puts it above, but I'm not sure one would look like.
Truly though, I would like to see food returned to a much lesser reliance on fuel - it would be better for the economy, better for our waistlines because we'd be eating fresh, seasonal food, and we could divert fuel sources to parts of the world that actually need it.
While I'm not an expert on the subject, I think this statement is true.
Its just a matter of having the technology or economic stability to mass produce.
In developed nations such as in Europe and the Americas you have farms with livestock and huge factories mass producing goods and having logistics planned to the T for distrubution within their continental reach.
And unfortunately Africa as a whole for a continent doesn't have anything like the scale of developed nations, in my humble opinion.
Then again I could be wrong.
-hhanonymous
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