Some food for thought this morning... The chemical companies that are both making the foods and selling the chemicals required to grow them often claim that their products are needed to feed the world. It’s an emotional argument. Powerful, too. But in light of the fact that 2 billion people are overweight or obese and 1 billion are hungry, while 30% of what is grown is thrown away, is a food shortage really the problem? “The world is hungry because of politics and economics, not because we can’t grow food” a farmer from Australia recently said. And if you go wide, beyond the consumers and farmers, and dig into the politics of food, you realize how complicated and politically, economically and financially loaded the issue has become. According to the USDA, 40 percent of the food we produce is never eaten. So in light of this food waste, do we need this genetically engineered food to feed the world or do we need to design a distribution model?
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:46:53 +0000
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