Ok, I have donated money, food and volunteer time to help people. My school does food drives. We have done as much as we can and people still tell us we're "privileged". They're right, we are, but that doesn't mean we don't deserve what we have and it doesn't mean that we aren't trying to stop world hunger.
Distribution problems don't always amount to greed. It can often be precedural or a shit ton of red tape. For instance, some fast food restaurants have policies against donating leftover food to shelters or the homeless simply because laws can be interpreted to make them liable if it sits out there too long and somebody gets sick when they do eat it. World food distribution is the same thing on a larger scale. Laws in place to make sure people don't get sick tend to narrow distribution channels and make it very hard to move food to places it's needed. It has to go through certain procedures, and in the end the cost can outweigh the altruism. It's a castle of cards sometimes, tweaking one part affects another. If it was as simple as harvesting, packing it, and dropping it in a town in need then it would be happening.
I'm part of a group that collects food and other kinds of supplies to send to places in the world that needs them. It's kind of funny seeing everybody in the remote village get secondhand NFL jerseys that people donated because those players don't play anymore. What we found was very Often a shipment of food would sit on the dock and go to waste because the people in power we're trying to favor a certain tribe at the expense of other tribes, so we see that racism is alive and well in Africa and it's racism between types of people that we would consider the same because they're all black and from the same country.
So one of the problems with "distribution" is beyond what we normally think of as a challenge of worldwide distribution… Dictators and bureaucrats in the very countries were trying to help.
There is enough food to feed everyone and it is distribution that is problem wfp.org/hunger/faqs link to world food program faq thet says it
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· 8 years ago
With current technology, sure we could.
I'm just pointing the GMOS out because some people are so #triggered by those kind of things. I'm totally fine with them.
And i haven't seen that info before. Some data could be useful to judge it but hey, let's just trust them in the mean time.
Ps: Not even going to waste time on the 12 year old @dolphinmaster77.
So one of the problems with "distribution" is beyond what we normally think of as a challenge of worldwide distribution… Dictators and bureaucrats in the very countries were trying to help.
And we can only feed them all with modified crops (a.k.a GMOS).
Sooo pick your side..
I'm just pointing the GMOS out because some people are so #triggered by those kind of things. I'm totally fine with them.
And i haven't seen that info before. Some data could be useful to judge it but hey, let's just trust them in the mean time.
Ps: Not even going to waste time on the 12 year old @dolphinmaster77.