Global Food and Consumption

[fuzzy butt]

this is a very interesting discussion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM_PSqjIF0o

and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCAN...eature=related

[Bryn Mawr]

Originally Posted by fuzzy butt

this is a very interesting discussion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM_PSqjIF0o

and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCAN...eature=related

As you say, fascinating subject. I'll try to get back to this when I'm not rushing off to work.

[fuzzy butt]

I've just heard that the UN has been able to tally up our world food supply.

Apparently if every single person in the world was given a meal we would only have enough food left for seven more meals per person in food storage.

Thank god we can't feed everyone at once.....< --------------- Yes that was sarcasm

What do you guys think about that?

[spot]

I don't believe it.

[fuzzy butt]

Well that's what they reckon. sorry i'm listening to BBC ABC world news on the radio and that's what they said.

The reason apparently is that we arent' feeding everyone. Only a minority of the worlds population is being fed on a regular basis.

[fuzzy butt]

Oh and the meal they are talking about consists of two vegetables, one portion of fruit, and two grains, plus a portion of dairyand a portion of fish or maet.. For some that's a weeks worth of food.

[spot]

Originally Posted by fuzzy butt

Well that's what they reckon. sorry i'm listening to BBC ABC world news on the radio and that's what they said.

The reason apparently is that we arent' feeding everyone. Only a minority of the worlds population is being fed on a regular basis.

What does "being fed" mean?

People who don't get enough food die. Fewer do that than used to. The remainder eat enough food to live. Whether what they eat constitutes distinct meals or "being fed", or whether "being fed" means being given food rather than buying it, I can't guess. Everyone who doesn't die of starvation is eating, though. That's plain logic.

If I had to guess, wildly, there's enough food in existence to keep everyone eating the way they ate today for another month. Maybe possibly two but I doubt it. It's primarily the food in the delivery chain. If it were just seven meals it would mean the delivery chain was only seven meals from cutting the crop to serving on a plate and that's way way too short a time as a world average.

[fuzzy butt]

"Being fed" feeding every single person to a healthy dietary standard needed for top human heatlh and longevity, It's not in the delivery but in the growing ....we couldn't grow it fast enough.

[fuzzy butt]

Personally I can see that . within the next 50 years the food bowl of Australia will be in Gippsland (everything will move southwards cause there's a lack of water . )

[spot]

Originally Posted by fuzzy butt

"Being fed" feeding every single person to a healthy dietary standard needed for top human heatlh and longevity,

If we did that, the US would have so much surplus it had stopped forcing down its own throat that the problem would be eased considerably.