The World Hunger Crisis: What are YOU doing about it?

[OldWiseGuy]

To the OP.

I don't overeat store bought foods. I kill a deer each year for lean, chemical free red meat. I vote Republican. (Notice that they are thinner than Democrats. )

I give to charities as well, but I don't really know what they do with the money.

I try to do things right and be a good friend and citizen. This helps relieve the societal stresses which causes some people to overeat.

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[Verv]

Of course by doing that our drive down the prices of food in those other countries making it just that much harder for the local farmers to make a profit so they can plaint again the next year.

Makes them depended on the US.

I didn't think of that initially.

It is truly as if there is no perfect answer at all. Rough times!

 

[Steezie]

Short term solutions, such as charity and governent aid, are merely patches on the problem. They are short-term solutions at best, and can even make the problems worse.

Captalism and free trade is the ultimate solution because it solves the problem of distribution by getting food to be grown where it can be grown most efficiently and cheaply, and providing incentives for distribution through trade.

This approach hasn't been tried in any consistent way, but to the extent it has been tried, however imperfectly, captalism and trade have improved food production and taken a large part in reducing world hunger. It can do much better, but that would require governments to stop trying to affect prices in various meddlesome ways.


eudaimonia,

Mark

But then you run into the problem of sacrifices. Such as with the food supply now. The US CAN produce large quantities of food, we simply dont encourage farmers to do so and we destroy large stocks of food. This keeps the food market itself intact and relatively stable, however it means a lot of people are losing out who NEED food and we cant do anything for them.

So while you may keep the food market going here so we can eat sticky buns and ho hos, you are destroying food that can save lives elsewhere and I think to deny food to people simply because you want to keep eating crap food is indefensible.