Does the world produce enough food to feed everyone?

Question

I have a friendly wager with my friend about this. He is being very pig headed and can not beleive there is enough food produced each year to feed everyone in the world, no matter how many websites I show him that prove the world does produce enough food to feed everyone. Many people assume not enough food is produced because people starve, but people starve because of poverty and uneven food distribution. Many poor countries have crappy soil and cannot produce thier own food and dont have enough money to buy food from other countries who produce it. Please give me your opinions either way on the subject. If you agree with me then please give a very good reliable website as your source. I have shown him numerous websites and he just disregards them because they are not .edu type sites. Its really frustrating. Please prove this either way with a very reliable website.

To the people who say. "Why do you think people are dieing" . They die because of poverty and lack of distribution. Please keep the retarded responsed out of here. If you disagree, give me proof. If you agree please give me proof. Trusted websites are best. Thanks.

Answer 1

I agree with you... the world probebly produces enough food.... however people starve due to poverty... impovrish countries cannot afford to get the food to their people or bad land like you said!

Answer 2

I'm sorry I can't provide a website, but you are correct, the world does produce enough food to feed everyone. The people who were instrumental in getting the one world government started has decided that there are too many people in the world to be controlled, so they are allowing some of them to starve to death. I am sorry your friend won't listen to reason when the plain truth is right in front of him. And you're not going to find a lot of edu type sites, because these people who wanted to start the one world government realized that they are going to have to start brainwashing (educating) people in the ways that they want them to believe, so they also got involved in the educational system so long ago that many of us weren't even born yet. That is also why there are a lot of people who think the world is overpopulated and they only want to have one child or less per couple, and that anyone who has more than 2 is being selfish. Think about it, if every couple has one child or less, they are still reducing the population because they are not even replacing themselves. I know this sounds crazy, but it's true. Start checking out the facts and do research into this. You will be very surprised.

Answer 3

Yes, there is enough food to feed the world, and like you said, it's just bad distribution that leads to so much starvation. In a global economy where trade can occur on all corners of the Earth, and with advances in genetics, soil fertility, planting, and general agriculture practices, we could easily produce enough food to feed the entire world, with plenty of left over. The problem is greedy people in power stealing and hoarding food from others and not allowing food supply to reach the starving masses. In many african coutries, gangs distrupt incoming food aid for starving people to hold them in a state of terror. I don't have any websites, but these are things I've been learning in school my whole life and are fairly common knowledge. But here's a few simply news articles that show what I'm talking about - starvation caused by governmetns/politics, not food shortages.

Answer 4

I don't have a website for you, but I will weigh in with my opinion. It's common knowledge that surplus grain is at any given time, sitting in silos in the US. Farmers are encouraged by subsidies to overproduce certain crops and when the market is glutted, it sits waiting for the prices to go back up. It's also well-documented that aid shipments to famine areas are often stolen for sale on the black market and never make it to those in need. It's not lack of food that causes people to die of starvation, it's greed, bureaucracy and the politics of poverty. Even if it were true that we weren't currently producing enough to feed the population, this would be easily remedied by converting arable land used for grazing future hamburgers into crop land producing plant foods for people; the lower we eat on the food chain, the more people we can feed.

Ask your friend how many people could live off just the food he throws away.

Answer 5

yes, i believe there is enough food, it is just no properly distributed. if u take into account how much food the average middle class person wastes, and then the upper class too, we have plenty of food. really u only need about 2000 calories, and yet we have people eating 4 or 5000 a day. have your friend read the among the hidden series. it's where there is a ban on how many kids a family can have (2) and the main character is a third child. they put the ban because of food, and there are some good thought provoking statements about hunger made.

Answer 6

Yes, the world does produce enough food to feed everyone and it is due to the lack of even food distribution, just as you mentioned, that you find starving people. The earth as a whole has enough resources to feed its inhabitants, but since we're in different territories, resources can get particularly scarce in one area and therefore provide insufficient food to the people living in that area. Although there isn't a generalised statement about the word having enough resources to produce food for everybody, it becomes quite apparent when you see the surplus amount of food countries like the U.S and U.K simply throw away.

Answer 7

Yes i think the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone and everybody can still have seconds. BUT the U.S. government decides to dump all the corn and all the wheat etc. that they make and don't sell because then the price of the products would go down to the floor..and they don't want that. They want money. Always have, always will. They're more interested in the stock market and money instead of worrying about the people that need food. It's unfair and it's greedy.

Answer 8

I think if we were all vegetarian and not so money hungry in the wealthy countries, we could share grains, rice, and vegetables and there'd be enough. But it's not going to happen. So soil is destroyed farming animals, and it can't be used to grow veggies again. But I also think it has to do with adaptation - meaning, we haven't adapted or accepted the food shortage - so we don't accept that there are ways around it. Whereupon it becomes survival of the fittest, and we compete for food at the lowest level and 114 room houses on the highest. It's just nature, and we're animals.

Answer 9

In my opinion I think you're right. The food supplys of the world are enough to feed every person, but like you said, too many times a country may not have the resources to buy food for its people, often in 3rd world countrys food supplies are taken by warlords to use as a means of enslaving the people.

Answer 10

I have heard this story many times before we produce enough to feed everyone. The main reason we have people starving in countries isn't because of lack of food the US is willing to send food over to other countries but when people aren't willing to eat meat or kill their cows to eat.

Lot of them don't know about Rice patties or items like that.

And as some of pointed out many countries do it for the profit.

Answer 11

My answer's YES, we do produce enough food to feed everyone. Our problem is just that more powerful countries produce more than it needs, and that waste food is usually being thrown. On the otherside, poor countries have got a lot of problems with catering food. I think the richer countries should collect all waste food and donate it to those who really need it.