What Causes Hunger?
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What Causes Hunger?
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Re: What Causes Hunger?
#2Everyone who is interested in this subject I recommend the book(s) from Jean Ziegler. He is a former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
Re: What Causes Hunger?
#3Sorry to say it, but that list doesn't include the most obvious cause of hunger.
_People who reproduce when they don't have a reasonable expectation of feeding their offspring._
It seems like a whole class of possible solutions to the problem of hunger are ignored with such a tunnel vision approach to the problem.
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#4Sorry to say it, but that list doesn't include the most obvious cause of hunger. _People who reproduce when they don't have a reasonable expectation of feeding their offspring._ It seems like a whole class of possible solutions to the problem of hunger are ignored with such a tunnel vision approach to the problem.
First sentence: "The world produces enough to feed the entire global population of 7 billion people."
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#5Sorry to say it, but that list doesn't include the most obvious cause of hunger. _People who reproduce when they don't have a reasonable expectation of feeding their offspring._ It seems like a whole class of possible solutions to the problem of hunger are ignored with such a tunnel vision approach to the problem.
First sentence: "The world produces enough to feed the entire global population of 7 billion people."
What does world surplus food have to do with someone's reasonable expectation that they can get food for their future children?
Bill Gates has surplus millions but I'm not going to build a new garage for the Porche I can buy with all his excess money.
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#6ctrl+f 'overpopulation' 0 results.
Sure, let's just completely ignore the elephant in the room.
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#7ctrl+f 'overpopulation' 0 results. Sure, let's just completely ignore the elephant in the room.
As you roll back the calendar, when in human history has lower population meant less per-capita hunger in the world?
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#8I'm missing some points:
- Land grabs: Big investors buy agriculture land to produce cash crops for export, e.g soy beans to feed pigs.
- Colonial past: Most land in 3rd world countries is owned by a few rich people. E.g. Namibia was a hunger country before 1990, but is now one of the biggest meat exporters after a successful land reform.
- Frankenfood: Monsanto and other big seed companies destroying the ability of farmers to grow their own seeds.
- Food laws: One of the first things Bremer did after invasion of Iraq was to install US food laws, basically forbidding people to sell traditional food on the market. Forcing them to buy hybrid seeds.
Re: What Causes Hunger?
#9Sorry to say it, but that list doesn't include the most obvious cause of hunger. _People who reproduce when they don't have a reasonable expectation of feeding their offspring._ It seems like a whole class of possible solutions to the problem of hunger are ignored with such a tunnel vision approach to the problem.
Most people have children with the expectation of being able to feed them, and then things change.
You claim it's the most obvious cause of hunger, but do you have anything to support that claim?
Re: What Causes Hunger?
#10Sorry to say it, but that list doesn't include the most obvious cause of hunger. _People who reproduce when they don't have a reasonable expectation of feeding their offspring._ It seems like a whole class of possible solutions to the problem of hunger are ignored with such a tunnel vision approach to the problem.
Most people have children with the expectation of being able to feed them, and then things change. You claim it's the most obvious cause of hunger, but do you have anything to support that claim?
Most people have children with the expectation of being able to feed them
See already you're off base. Someone's individual expectation is not at all necessarily a "reasonable expectation". There are lots of gamblers in Vegas who expect to win big tonight... doesn't mean their expectations are reasonable.
but do you have anything to support that claim
What, like statistical evidence? No. I don't have statistical evidence that my car is parked outside either, but I'll still take a chance on it by walking to the spot where I left it earlier.