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Reuters reports — One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations' food agencies said on Tuesday, warning that progress to reduce hunger has slowed since 2007/08 when high food prices sparked riots in several poor countries.
In their latest report on food insecurity, the UN agencies estimated that 868 million people were suffering hunger in 2010-2012, or about 12.5 percent of the world's population, down more sharply than previously estimated from about 1 billion, or 18.6 percent in 1990-92.
The new figures are lower than the last estimates for recent years that pegged the number of hungry people at 925 million in 2010 and 1.02 billion in 2009. Read the full story.
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It makes perfect sense to have 1,000's of Billionaires around the world . When we can't feed the 1 in 8 for a est. cost of $5 Billion a year. Yep perfect sense.............
It makes perfect sense to tie the price of a bushel of wheat or corn to the price of a barrel of oil.
The one thing that really pisses me off is that most of these people live in places where they can grow food.
Since agriculture is a global industry, the industry itself is to blame for alot of this. In some parts of the world people aren't even aloud to work the land and forced to buy products that in all likelyhood are produced in their country by their citizens used as slave labor, shipped to some 1st world country to be processed, shipped back as a finished product and sold to the very people who harvested it at prices that make them choose between water and food for any given day. Don't believe me? Research for yourself. And research both sides of the issue. Don't just research what good ol government or industry tells you. You will begin to be able to piece together the very reason that people go hungry in this world. Poverty is a form of control....hunger is used as a tool. It is nonsense that people go hungry in this day and age.
1 in 8 go hungry because sex is free, food costs money. Expect more of this in the future.
There are approximately 490,000 babies born every day worldwide.
The UN Population Division predicted an increase of population from 6.512.276.000 (2005) to 6.908.688.000 (2010).
That means a net increase of 396,412,000 people in five years, meaning a net increase of 217,212 people/day or 150 more people/minute.
For that matter the USA Government could ...........NeverMind .....they are wasting a trillion or 2 on wars.
"In God We Trust" LOL. "Allah is great" LOL.
If we are all God's children, then God the Father is the Original Deadbeat Dad.
Google: "original deadbeat dad" (use the quotes)
That is a warped view but I have been there at points in my life so I can relate. Glad I am not at present.
John- Thanks for the elucidation. It was spot on and very entertaining.
So if you interpreted both of your comments into something in plain speak you are saying what? That you both believe in god but think he is a deadbeat? ...because you could just try atheism or some other religion. It seems kind of twisted to me to believe in god and hate him too but hey...free world and all.
Proof that there is just not enough fast food outlets on the planet! Really, really sad truth about what all countries do with their wealth instead of feeding the masses.
The obvious solution to this problem is to continue the trend of overpopulation in countries that are already unable to meet the food demand of the inhabitants. Why have 1-2 kids you're actually able to feed when you could have 6-10+ starving kids instead?
No one like to talk about the issue of overpopulation, but it is what it is and eventually some very difficult decisions will have to be made. The planet is only capable of supporting so many people between natural resources and various forms of agriculture & food production; all of which are dependent on an individuals geographic location and climate.
Sono,
You are very ignorant about modern GLOBAL agriculture and food production. Clueless to the point that it would take me a thousand pages in this posting to set you straight.
Research dude. Follow the path of a vegetable grown in some third world African country to the finished product and you will be able to reason out why people starve in this day and age. We produce way more than enough food to feed the people on this planet.
It is a global industry for profit....and people around this planet die of starvation for profit.
Savages who can't understand peace.
You do not understand the issue of the problem. Hunger happens in the United States as well.
Hungry folks in the world has nothing to do with the status of the U.S. or oil. Folks are hungry because of their corrupt *ss governments, it is just that simple. How much money has gone to Unicef and other organizations to feed these folks? And yet, year after year, indeed decade after decade we are still subjected to watching commercials of children with bloated bellies and flies flying in their eyes and up their noses. After a while one no longer says awwwww and woe is them, but says: damn how could their own people allow them to starve?! So if this article was intended to guilt trip me it is no longer working because if I sent my entire check every time I got paid and ate every morsel on my plate, these folks will still be in the same predicament. It is what it is.....
You are partly correct in that "their" corrupt governments are to blame but the reason people starve in this world involves more players than "their" governments and is much more sinister than it appears on the surface.
grow food. grow food. people were farmers and growers since the beginning of time. relying on aid after the government or the corporations take your land for their personal use or end up destroying it does not work.
self-sufficiency. and keeping the gov;t and corps from interference is key.
Spot on. World governments and the global agricultural industry are THE reason people go hungry. The arrangements made by these businesses and governments around the world (ALL governments) concerning crop production do not allow for the citizens of these third world countries to provide for their families working the land. The same construct can be applied to animal species going extinct, natural habitats disappearing, air pollution and any other global crisis you can dream up. When all of these hippies and "tree huggers" and (insert whatever you want to call people who love this planet and tell you the truth you don't want to hear) say that we as a species are about to hit the tipping point....when it happens, just remember whos fault it is...Those with the power and capacity to change this are the very people who perpatrate it and won't stop until it is not profitable.
WHAT overpopulation problem?? You people are in the tank! The problem is abortions, people, and the pill. Wake up! We can hit 10 billion if we really try. It's all the spin by the bogus liberal media....I mean 1 in 8 people malnourished....facts can be made to say anything! What we need is four more wars in the Middle East!
Romney/Ryan 2012
A good start is to sell the United Nations buildings and properties, and distribute it to the people, even if it's 10 cents a head...it will prove they really care.
On a more effective scale, bring ALL representatives of bureaucracies, Corporate profiteering, Wall Street manipulators and their World Counterparts, privately owned Banking Cartels, and corrupt Political Classes to account. Then seize and liquidate ALL assets, and re-distribute them to the people of the World from the bottom up. That should ease up on the oppression.
Let's start with a clean slate like our Forefathers did.
OUR forefathers Domingo ?
That's rich !
How about you take your communism to the polls and vote for Obama. I'll pass on the communism; it has been proven to remove incentive for innovation and job creation. I'll bet you would love the luxuries that you didn't work for, good luck getting them, you will likely get shot trying to do so.
I do like the oil for food idea though. If they won't buy it, we should ferment it and run our machines and homes on it.
Just a bit over the top. I was thinking more along the lines of some stiffer regulation to ensure that these countries governments have enough food for their own GD people before they start profiting from selling it to others. That and the subsidities in developed countries be nixed. We are all about playing fair right? That's what we are taught. So play fair. We do not play fair and neither do any of the other wealthy agricultural producing nations on this planet. So I'd settle on just leveling the playing field alittle. Business is Business I know. But we are talking about food.
What is Indian government doing about it ? The Indians have been given food for generations,more food-more people, more trees were cut causing more drought , so less food..Now they export some people to the US. Just like in Mexico ,the poverty in India is caused by a corrupt government.We are heading in the same direction.
What I find to be strange is that somehow there is plenty of money for endless wars, but little money for people.Can one call this progress ?Our dogooders in Congress send many of our jobs to India so we can have more poor people here.
Suffer the little children, and yet most of the major religions are opposed to birth control and education. God sure doesn't seem to give a damn. Oh wait the followers of this GOD are busy killing those who do not follow THEIR belief. Wake up world science can help us but ONLY WE CAN SAVE OURSELVES.