There was a dialogue about food and hunger yesterday. A sobering dialogue. A maddening dialogue. A dialogue which kept circling back to inequities that exist on the planet.<\/p>\n
There’s two\u00a0facts from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization that are troubling because they BOTH exist on this planet:<\/p>\n
1. 805 million people are chronically undernourished on the planet
\n2. An estimated one-third of all food in the world is throw away (though FAO also admits this number is hard to estimate).<\/p>\n
Not that the one-third of the wasted food can be easily delivered\u00a0to the 805 million people who are under-nourished, but if we could: THERE WOULD NO WORLD HUNGER.<\/p>\n
I was caught up in that startling reality that there’s enough food on the planet for everyone yet nearly a billion of people who need it, can’t get it,and didn’t listen as closely as I probably should have. I was maddened, at myself, at people in the room talking about it at a catered discussion while those 805 million suffer today, at everyone except those 805 million. \u00a0 I had no idea one-third of food is wasted (I trust FAO’s facts).<\/p>\n
I realize the issue is complex — the discussion was all about those complexities — but when it comes down to it, it feels like a lack of will, a lack of empathy, a lack of drive to fix it.<\/p>\n
Let’s say if I waste X-amount of food in a given week, why am I not more conscietious about how much I’m buying? If I buy $50 in food but waste $10 of it, how does “the system” get their hands on that $10 before I spend it, I buy the food I only will actually eat, and that $10 goes to alleviate hunger somehow.<\/p>\n
How do we figure this out……<\/p>\n
-Brett<\/p>\n
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There was a dialogue about food and hunger yesterday. A sobering dialogue. A maddening dialogue. A dialogue which kept circling back to inequities that exist on the planet. There’s two\u00a0facts from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization that are troubling … Continue reading