Is Eradicating World Hunger Ever Going to be Possible?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Explore the root causes of world hunger and if it's possible to end starvation. Discover the surprising truth behind food waste and how countries with ample land and resources struggle to feed their people. Uncover the flaws of food aid and the impact it has on local agriculture. Join us on a journey to end world hunger.
I think greed has a lot to do with world hunger. I have a friend who defected from N.korea a few years ago. He lost the majority of his family from starvation in the 90s. He said there was an official who was supposed to give out grain and other food stuffs to the people in his section but he held on to most of it and sold it to other officials. He even made women sleep with him for food. He survived by boiling grass ,bark ,birds and worms. People would even eat lice and other bugs.
If we were to have everyone fed,and not dying,they will reproduce faster,and increase the amount of space needed for living,and the need for more food,while also more than likely leaving less room available for any form of true farming...Unfortunately,world hunger,is the cheapest form of reproduction control.
“The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed." ― William Gibson
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It's a logistics issue, not a production issue.
Yup. No one in power wants to spend the resources necessary to move the food to where it needs to go.
@@RHCole This is because the most important motive in our economy is profit maximization. Being sustainable (also environmentally), not exploiting the people along the supply chain and actually contributing to the avg. standard of living should be the goal, not dividends for the shareholders or fat paychecks for the executives.
@@Psychx_ If you believe a word of that you need your head examined. Thats just delusional anti capitalism nonsense
@@Psychx_ it’s far more sustainable to let the farmers who are currently growing soy and cereal grains for animal feed to reclaim the land for their own.
Millions of acres are dedicated solely to housing and feeding livestock, and it only takes 1/4 acre to feed 4 people eating only plant based. Even less land can feed more people if we use it wisely and grow vertically.
To say that it’s greed is fully correct, but not in the way that it’s been presented.
As well as a political issue. Kim Jong Un has no logistical problems with NK's food. Many of the hungry are being intentionally starved by despots & dictators.
Of all the titles that this channel had. This topic is the first that I hope actually becomes science fact. Instead of science fiction. Cheers from Tennessee
East, Middle, or West?
@@jcook693 West .
@@Hillbilly001 ten four. East here
Same. It'd be cool to see plenty of sci-fi tech realized, but arguably this is the most realistic. It mostly just relies on most people giving a shit about well, people other than themselves. Wouldn't even necessarily require sacrifice on the part of the global north, just not wasting food. Which doesn't seem THAT hard IMHO.
Can't wait to see the first starving man with iphone viral vid. Everyone can tweet to him where to get a job, find food, etc. 🤣
in my opinion world hunger isn't a problem of food or money, but a problem of politics, corruption, infrastructure and logistics.
Basically to solve starvation in poorer countries, there needs to have infrastructures for growing food, processing food, transporting food or food production related products.
We as outsiders can provide donations/subsidies for these infrastructures but it only works if the local government is not corrupt and keep the donations for themselves.
Outsiders going in and setting up private companies to support these infrastructures is not a really a good idea, unless specific protocols are taken like only hiring local workers and training them in hope in the future they are able to take over.
In other words, the real problem is governments not wanting to give up power/authority, and private individuals not wanting to give up the chance to make another dollar - in other words; greed is the problem. Color me shocked.
Low cost and plentiful energy. That's all that is needed... once the corrupt governments get out of the way.
@@chrisofdoom4761 What does that remind me of? Ohh yes:
The telephone - when people can communicate instantly there will be no more misunderstandings! ("Hello? I can barely hear you. What did you say? ...")
The train - when people and wares can move around quickly there will be no more scarcity or starvation! (Same for roads and cars. I wonder why it's taking so long.)
The Internet - with fully distributed information there will be no more misinformation and power will finally be balanced! (Boy, were we wrong about that one!)
In short: neither corruption nor all the other dark corners of human nature will get out of the way any time soon. It's hard work on social problems, not easy technological solutions. I wish it was technical - as an Engineer I could help solve those in a jiffy...
Of all the sci-fi things out there that could happen, I think this is probably one of the most important, alongside eliminating all diseases. It's not necessarily the sexiest, but definitely one of the most necessary.
Have you tasted some of the fake meat they make these days? If people can get over the idea that it's not actually muscle tissue they're eating but something equally delicious... Science is no longer fiction. Oh I really must treat myself to one of of those juicy, juicy fake steaks again, so tasty and tender 😍
@@rainbowtheythemshe1115 The plant based ones? Sorry, but they won't fool meat eaters, but it might tide them over for a bit. If it helps reduce the intake of meat for some people, that's worth something, I guess.
The lab based ones using cloning tech will probably be good, but I have my doubts they'll have the energy efficiency gains and lower carbon footprint so many are hoping they will. I hope they prove me wrong, though.
In a world where billionaires would rather spend on buying social media corporations or pouring money on mediocre metaverses, this isn’t possible.
Actually Simon explained the 2 main reasons for it. In at least some of the countries where hunger is an issue, the governments only subsidise farmers to grow food for export, meaning there isn't enough to feed the local population.
Developed countries also need to change their eating habits so there is less demand / incentive for those countries to export so much.
Everyone should strive to eat locally produced food, so there is less need to transport from other countries. Less carbon footprint, less contribution to climate change (and fewer natural disasters affecting food production).
Even they can't afford it. Bernard Arnault worth 214 billion. It would cost 267 billion per year to end. It last for a year than people would be hungry again.
@@Whitneypyant Well its a good thing the human population is going down, so now less starving people.
Wow. Each of these videos are getting slicker and slicker.
2nd post after seeing it end to end, distribution requires ZERO wars, ZERO Bandits, and ZERO corrupt associated officials in order to have ZERO starvations. The odds of that occurring are beyond humanity at the moment.
World hunger in the modern world has always been a logistical problem. Most of the starving people are living in places with poor infrastructure, the "developing world". Consequently, these places also have high birth rates. Having more people in a place where, getting food to where it will remain affordable to them is an impossible situation.
That's not even factoring in, corruption, greed..etc.
Therefore in these places, the population should be kept below the local carrying capacity of the land (Or if possible local agriculture should be improved). The best solution is not to move food to the people, but move people to places where food is more abundant and available at affordable prices (And if such places do not exist, create them).
It's sad that ending world hunger is considered science fiction.
it would take an effort from everyone on the planet to implement it..AND THAT'S THE FICTIONAL PART OF THE STORY 🤣
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For American viewers, paracetamol is known as Acetaminophen in the Americas. One notable brand is Tylenol. So 444 Tylenols.
The easiest way to keep people under control is to keep them hungry. Over feeding seems to work too, but that may be a mass depression thing.
Keep them divided so their at each others throats is there tactic. Some hungry, others fat and fed, some rich, some poor, some get freebies, others must work, some get privledges, others get restrictions, some get imprisoned, others get all the freedoms, the divisions never end.
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weird that no option for solving world hunger would simply be just everyone pull out for a few years so the population shrinks instead of increasing by around 90,000,000 people every year
Read Pieter Singer’s classic essay “Famine, affluence and mortality”. Ask yourself how you feel about his proposition.
The solution is money, but not I the way people think. Just donating to food aid isn't going to solve anything. What if instead, there were meaningful trade tariff reductions or rebates or something similar for countries who dedicated X amount of agricultural production to their own local food markets. It would incentives those countries who are prioritising export to set aside some for the local markets. This would of course rely on the western world to implement it and right now I can't think of what their incentive would be (out if the goodness of their hearts isn't going to work), but maybe there's something there.
Why not use the Kratky method and old deli buckets or box containers to make hydroponic grow devices and send those to food needy communites so they can grow their own vegetables?
Man, I'm still trying to fix my own hunger! Just when I think I've solved it, two hours later it's back!
Stop eating carbs and sugar then. They trigger greulin the hunger hormone.
@@terrafirma9328 was making a joke dude
I sure hope it can be eradicated once an for all - EVERYWHERE 😔
It will be. When humans go extinct.
@@jennaxoxox4821 Try and find a solution before that happens is more to my point
As human beings won't live forever as a species is rather obvious, much like Dinosaurs
It’s never going to happen unless humanity changes itself.
I would think it's more of a money issue rather than a lack of food
Bingo.. or the diversion of funds. People are the problem.
It's always a control issue and most likely always will be that. Those who control others will starve, restrict, deny, prevent others just to keep control of anything.
We don't grow enough food to make sure nobody goes hungry.
We grow enough food to make literally every human obese.....
Have you done a video on *Space 199?* When the *Moon Base Alpha* goes through a black hole with no damage!
Question: Doesn't gas tend to expand, like helium from a gas bottle? If so how can hydrogen compress on to it self and from a star. Also considering the amount of _pressure from the nuclear fission _energy_ being released and then the outer part compressing back onto it self? Here on Earth (Mercury, Venus & Mars as well) we have iron core, etc. thus loads of gravity!
There are quite a few videos on star formation. Yes, the answer is gravity, but even if you put all the planets in the solar system together in one massive planet, you wouldn't get a star. It needs far more gravity to make even the coolest of stars, a brown dwarf. Now increasing the temperature of the core of said superplanet with a laser from our sun could ignite it so it's theoretically possible.
I believe most restaurants/stores etc, at least I the USA can't donate their leftover food because of litigation if someone gets sick eating it. It's why many dumpsters at restaurants have chains and a lock on them.
There's also the psychological problem of people being given "leftovers" or "trash". Yes, it might be perfectly good food, but finding yourself in the situation of eating discarded food can be very demoralizing for some, and they really would rather die.
It's like the Seonfeld episode "The Muffin Tops." No one wants to just eat the stumps. And I honestly can't really blame people for that.
They are completely able to donate all food to charity.
"Absent gross negligence, intentional misconduct, or a violation of food or product regulations, the Good Samaritan Act prevents the donation's recipient from bringing a lawsuit against the donor or donee for food-or product-related injuries."
The fact is they don't donate their food, simply because if someone got sick, it would be bad publicity, even if it's later determined that the restaurant food wasn't what made them sick, their image would already have taken a hit.
Pig farmers receive alot of these food scraps, so not all is wasted. Then there is the composts piles. Nature lets nothing go to waste, it all gets recycled. Even dead politicians🤔
Most of the problem is greed. Profits over people. There are a few other comparatively minor issues, but that is the main problem. Rich people want to stay rich, and manipulate the lower classes to do so.
Not anymore they keep cutting the amount of nitrogen. They are virtually making it impossible but keep your eye on the prize.
I heard from a reputable source once that the Earth could sustain 1 trillion people with perfect supply and management efficiency as well as some near-future tech. I think it was Isaac Arthur’s channel.
You didn't even mention the biggest factor, war. We make plenty of food and have the capacity to make even more but you can sell or even give food to those in an active warzone without risking it being diverted by corruption, theft or outright destruction for strategic purposes.
Why does it have to be without risk? If we give food/money to those starving there sure is a risk that it would not end up in the hands of those in need. But also a chance some of it does. But if we don't those starving will not benefit without any doubt.
If we have the means to try and we don't is no reason to make excuses not to try. If we buy more time or delay another day a solution might present itself and we at the least did what we could until then.
@@terrafirma9328 You want aid workers to risk death, rape, and kidnapping for a chance of getting food to hungry people?
And now that more people in Western countries are starting to get seriously ill/die from malnutrition (often worsened by pneumonia), I doubt those in charge of those countries would even consider a fair system where everyone in the world has access to necessary food, because, as we know, access to coffee and chocolate for a few, is far more important than access to nutritional food for the majority. Unfortunately the scale of the problem makes most of us just want to give up and be grateful if we are the ones with access to food (as, I imagine, most of us are, as we have free time to watch videos like this).
I still don't know how people waste so much food.
Eyes bigger than their stomach.
Its not the eating meat it's the fact that if people would go hunting once in a while you'd have enough meat to last weeks even months for your family. There's plenty of invasive species almost everywhere so it's good for the eco system, good for you and we wouldn't rely on factory farmed meat
We grow more food than we need in the world.
We just don't get that food to everyone.
#stopworldhunger
We throw away NO food - we have a compost in our back yard.
I hoped one day somebody would invented a Protein resequencer, or Food synthesizer, or a Replicator.
There is no way to end world hunger. No matter how much we produce, no matter how well we distribute it, population growth will thwart our efforts.
We are still waiting on back to the future 🍕😂
Pill doesn't make the hunger feeling go away, or do they? If there is any science program testing such pills which provide the right nutrition and also don't let me feel hungry, I'm the first to volunteer.
Poverty is complex.
Poverty is easy, the solution is complex.
Pills might be able to deliver the required nutrition, but pretty sure it's not going to supply many calories.
Not everyone needs a ton of calories with epidemic levels of obesity becoming a problem.
It is on each person to feed themselves.
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@@sparkofcuriousity Have you any reasoned response to my statement or just feelings expressed by grunts?
@@diggernash1 there is absolutely no possible reasoned response to what you said, because what you said is in itself unreasonable.
I'm just going to say that fortunately for you, your caveman ancestors were more reasonable than you and that's why we *all* are here now.
Cooperation>individualism
@Ulfhednar The end of the play had not yet been written. A return to small people-groups is always a few more bad decisions away.
My response is reasoned and unemotional. If you do not feed people that cannot feed themselves, their numbers will drop until they can feed themselves.
@@diggernash1 are you ok with someone killing you for 5 bucks because they can't get anything to eat otherwise?
Please...
Think for a moment.
Even a selfish brain like yours can see it's in your own self interest that everyone else's needs be satisfied.
also the answer to this question is CLEAN fusion. not that dirty uranium fusion china is doing. just going to end up with the same problem as fission, where gettin rid of fissile materials is costly.
oh yea and there is thorium but who would invest in a thorium reactor AM I RIGHT PETER?
seeing as dairy/meat production produces manure which can be digested to produce methane and used to power local farms and villages, i say eat more meat more dairy and make good and energy abundant. but hey what do i know, its not like my house is powered by a digester... or is it?
It's possible right now. It's just not a priority.
Bolivia is why we need a global currency
Replicators would be lovely.
Such a strange advert on this video though. Better origin X1 insect farm for animal feed……
1:16 Soylent Green was set in 2022?😂
We will never solve problems like food and housing for everyone mostly because people don't want to. First, how can you be rich if everyone else isn't poor? Second, there are way too many people who make decisions that are bad and lead to bad consequences. Third, not everyone has the mental capacity it be successful at most things and to work normal jobs and pay their bills. Fourthly, there are many social factors that put people in bad situations and no real way out of them. Take a guy who gets married and has 3 kids, he isn't the brightest guy at the factory so is passed up for promotion, takes to drinking, starts caring more about drinking then his family and gets kicked out. Now you have a homeless guy and a mom and 3 kids without a source of good income to afford good food or good housing. There is no way to fix problems that people don't want to be part of the solution.
You shouldn't give people free food, you should give them the ability to make their own food. That way they work and become self-reliable instead of depending on you. Otherwise, should you fail, they will go hungry again.
Pretty sure Elon Musk didn't found Tesla...
BOO Simon! YAY Beef!
Yup. I read Bill Gates article a month or two ago on their foundation website - he mentioned that starvation is on the rise. Let me grab a tidbit I had saved somewhere...
What Bill Gates said on fewer children are dying (about 5million vs 10million 20 yrs ago): Tragically, recent events are slowing and even reversing this progress. The COVID-19 pandemic caused millions of deaths and severely hampered efforts to immunize children. Russia’s war on Ukraine is inflicting terrible suffering in Eastern Europe and driving up food and energy prices around the world. Rich countries are cutting foreign aid, partly because they need to spend more on the military, electricity subsidies, and support for refugees displaced by the war. Inflation is rising and economic growth is slowing. Climate change is leading to more frequent extreme weather. And in the United States, our politics are more polarized than ever. In my lifetime, the only other period that felt this turbulent was the 1960s.
Well in the 60s the college campuses where the rebellion centers. Today, it's democratic cities and the White House lawn.
Two words, bad governments
1:25 "The solution? It already exists. But it will take a concerted effort from everybody on the planet."
Chances of success: Zero.
That's the spirit. Tell noone the solution because you've lost a hope, no reason to let anyone else try. 🥴
I don't get this I eat everything I buy why yall wasting money
The majority of world hunger does not come from a shortage of food. It comes from food being utilized as a weapon. So to answer the question, no.
I am anal about my kitchen. I have a weekly food menu posted on my fridge. I pack my finances and my lunch with leftovers too. I DO NOT throw food away. It is an amazing waste of money.
In my my early years being on my own, this was not true tho. I had to grow up more. Running my life w/ spread sheets makes me an outlier tho.
I'm very similar. I would be surprised if my food waste was as much as 500 gm per week and that would include bones & fat from meat & fish, and the peelings etc from veg which is composted when it can't be used in cooking. Every week has a planned menu using quantities just sufficient for me and wife.
No its not possible.
We have too many people
I'll be eating a massive steak tonight to ensure that I don't go hungry
Mail your leftovers to a soup kitchen with a note asking for a tax receipt😉
You know Thanos in avengers was not wrong
No. It's not going to happen. It's not because we can't. It's because we won't. The people who don't have food don't have money to exchange for the food. People won't give food for free. There's your main issue. Money.
One reason greeed
10:51 - Tell Muslims and Jewish people that 😒
Yes I love meat too sadly!
Not while we feed animal's with food we can give people instead.
i am actually creating a initiative to end climate change, and if we use 9% of the worlds oceans for seaweed farming not only we will sequester 53billion tonnes of carbon dioxide but we can feed 10 billion people , so we are going to end world hunger as well .
Love ocean farming.
Relaize it.
The solution is eat buffalos and insects, and not cows and pigs...
Working at a hotel with a restaurant in it... We toss about 200lbs of food PER DAY. We could feed the homeless and poor in the entire surrounding town for free every day and still turn a profit. Unfortunately, we legally cannot give any of it away. That SERIOUSLY pisses me off.
i mean...its not anyone elses fault that some people have kids they cant afford to feed. so the answer is actually: when people start living within their means.
seriously, the idea of "world hunger" doesnt really mean anything. india or china cant feed its population...so thats Americas fault? like whats the argument here? it makes no sense.
Meat, especially ruminants farmed in modern countries, doesn't have a significant negative impact on the environment. And it's impact is definitely smaller or inline with that of normal agriculture.
Stop using the debunked "Livestock's long shadow" study as a blueprint and think logically. Ruminants can eat stuff we can't, and are farmed in places where normal agriculture can't work. If you could sell the cow's meal, to humans, for profit, why would you bother with selling the cow after it ate roughly 10k+ of those meals.
Also look at how much of the food that is thrown away is meat. Yeah, it's basically all vegetables. Almost as if meat can be stored in a frezer without significant degradation.
Basically, capitalism.
Dude literally explaining why Captialism doesnt work.
Ill eat more meat to stop the gasses and eat less vegetables for more oxygen. Problem solved
People with billions of dollars should have the tax taken out for problems like this it's not just one person that should foot the bill
Preach fact boooiiii
On a side bar regarding this situation. One of the things that annoys me to no end is when we had finished two months of maneuvers, in a not to be named training area, we had tons of food left over. We could not take it back and had nowhere to store it. It was decided to give it to a food bank. Someone allegedly got sick off that food and sued the military. After that it was a policy that whatever was left was destroyed. It did impose restrictions on food orders and made the staff accountable to how much and what was ordered but did damage an inadvertent way to give food as charity.
Falls under the heading of "No good deed goes unpunished."
You can not sue the military
I’ve heard it’s the same for many grocery stores & restaurants.
That would only happen in America. Tort reform is very much needed. It's literally ruining the nation.
@Maggie Mae You can under certain circumstances, basically if you can prove health consequences through their negligence (it would likely cost more to fight the "gave bad food" accusation than simply pay off the claimants with this example). From a legal point of view, banning charitable donations is the cheapest solution to prevent it happening again. It's really sad though :(.
Actually, the novel Make Room! Make Room!, the novel Soylent Green is based on, doesn't contain cannibalism. The cannibalism was added to the movie for dramatic effect.
Exactly what I was going to say. "Soylent Green" isn't even a thing, isn't even mentioned, in the book.
The movie was an adaptation. The producer made his own creative artistic version. Get over it.
Here in New Zealand we pride ourselves on our quality beef and lamb. That's why we export most of it (87-94%) and pay more per kg than anyone else FOR OUR OWN MEAT!
It's more profitable to sell to someone that doesn't have what you have than it is to keep it for yourself.
Perfect example of the problem root cause. We can't solve the issue of hunger while also continuing to run world economy on one and only stimulus - profit. Shifting that to people wellbeing indeed needs an effort from everyone on the planet, but I bet Simon will like the result even less, than reducing the amount of meat in his diet.
Even if you get food where it is needed, you will still face the biggest problem - humans. Those wanting to be selfish... those exerting power... and the plans will fail. (Some) Humans do a terrible job at being kind to each other.
YEP LOTS & LOTS & LOTS of FAKE Christians everywhere
@@rextrek Christians...? Oh, cos they're meant to be kind n stuff... I was just paraphrasing Doctor Who :)
No. women are real source of problem. most socioeconomic problems come from women. we should legislate misogynistic policy to limit right of women. it will definitely help poverty and hunger problem.
People are not inherently selfish and greedy. These are learned behaviors from socioeconomic systems that reward those qualities. When everyone has been living in a system that rewards selfishness, greed, hoarding, etc, It's hard to not think that this is human nature.
Gotta recognize that desire for cheap stuff and poor government organization (in developing countries) are intimately connected. The powerful corporations that control food production pay the keep governments poorly organized so they can keep getting cheap stuff. Ultimately hunger, and all poverty, is a by product of humanity’s collective unwillingness to change.
Before even watching this video, my response to the title, is that it already is.
It can be said that there are no "underdeveloped countries." There are only "undermanaged" ones.
-Peter F. Drucker
I am from Peru, close to Bolivia, and we can see this first hand, a quick current example, the governor of the region of Puno has been making a fuse to topple the current president which rightfully went to power after the former president, whom he has been supporting, was arrested for attempting a coup d'etat akin to what Yelstin did to the Russian Duma back in the 90s, yet this same governor executed less than 60 percent of the revenues taxes from mining, didn't build water reservoirs which could have helped the population of the region to face the current drought and he let the riots go on locally with tens of injured or dead, including a policeman burned alive.
Shall I mention these people have been funneling the money supposed to go to public works such as roads, water reservoirs, electric grid and security into their own pockets and to literally pay to rioters to come burn and destroy at the capital? Did I mention over 85 percent of the population of the capital came from regions such as Puno after getting feed up of these "social fighters" who keep selling to the local population and the West public the image of oppressed native peoples fighting against the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and other wheels of the so-called Empire?
It is a complicated problem. At the heart of it are logistics and the (often exaggerated) standards that we put on food. A lot of food is thrown away every day because it does not meet the "objective standard" of what is good enough to see. And even though we have the food to share, getting it too the people who are hungry requires jumping through various political and economic hoops between the food source and the people who truly need it. Unfortunately, food has been the most important "weapon" with which to exert control over a population for more than six millennia.
It is logistics and simple greed. Everyone wants to give without ignoring the cost.
There is also rampant corruption to deal with. Many of the country with staving citizens have a strongman leader stealing from the state for him and the people that help keep him in power while they spend all the donations sent in the form of foreign aid. Some of which was meant for standard of life improvements for its citizens and infrastructure and economy.
@@femain1788, "corruption" is a specific case of weaponizing food to control a population.
@@RHCole, there is (unfortunately) no such thing as "simple greed." If you ask any of the entities that you feel are "simply" greedy, they will have explanations for what they are doing that goes beyond simply desiring to line their pockets. That is what reduces the logical power of your argument.
@@RHCole It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with 'greed'
Reminds me of my holiday in the Dominican Republic, and the all you can eat buffet at our hotel...
Most western tourists filled their plate with a bit of food, then went for a refill when their plate was empty.
Most rich Dominicans in our hotel would fill multiple plates with food, then start their private buffet at their own table.
This resulted in the western tourists leaving very little leftovers for the trash, whilst the rich local population threw away multiple filled plates of perfectly edible food.
Direct food aid can be lifesaving but needs to be done correctly. First, ideally the food being given to starving people should be purchased locally if possible. This supports local agriculture. Second food aid should be accompanied by asistance in terms of materials and training to improve local food production so that food aid isn't needed forever. Suggested Reading: The Last Hunger Season
Yeah, especially cause of the carbon emissions of transportation of mass amounts of food would be crazy too, plus it creates a natural economy that provides for its own people.
I freaked hard when the 'food product' appeared on shelves with the name Soylent on it.
That food was made with blood, sweat and tears .
literally 😦😦😬😬
Forget about the food we waste. We spend billions on making movies, sports and entertainment. And millions are supposedly being donated. And yet millions are still dying from starvation...
Simon is a bad boy! He's actually worse then us from the United States? 😳
I think it's possible and we can do it right now.... electrolytes (sodium, chloride, magnesium, calcium, potassium) are generic drugs and cheap and available at virtually all pharmacies. If humans start taking them, they'll stop feeling thirsty/ hungry (fermented food or fiber also help with hunger), but most importantly they'll be healthy. I never knew the importance of electrolytes until i started taking them myself
Yeah, no. There is plenty of cheap food being sold locally, even in Bolivia and Ethiopia. Starvation isn't caused by a lack of production or local availability, it's caused by abject poverty and criminal behavior. There is no level of local production of food that can reduce the cost to zero, which is what you would have to do to feed people who literally have zero money to spend on it. The root of the problem is almost always a complete breakdown of civil society in these regions, which makes it impossible to be productive, at least for some of the people trapped there. This criminality can be governmental - lots of kleptocracy in the nastier places on Earth - but it is perhaps even more likely these days to be due to organized criminal gang activity in the area (monopolizing access to some resource, generally, like cobalt mines or drug production). Greedy, overconsuming Westerners are not the reason people are starving. This is even more true of meat consumption, which is not a primary cause of any of the ills you ascribe to it. I doubt much of the food waste you complain about is wasted meat (or grains/legumes), which are highly nutritious and highly valued. Fresh produce, on the other hand, spoils readily and while you may like it and it does contribute some vitamins and minerals to a diet, is virtually empty of bioavailable fats/proteins/carbohydrates. You aren't going to solve anything hunger-related by reducing wastage of this kind of food, since it does little to provide what starving people are lacking.
Overpopulation is the root cause of many of the most serious problems. A billion people using underarm deodorant is not a problem whereas 7 billion using it causes the ozone layer to get destroyed. A billion people driving cars is not a problem but 7 billion and you get massive air pollution. And so on...
2:22 You have to wonder what they think when/if they hear people are getting weight loss surgery.
How do you even get in a situation where you throw away food? Last 20 years i have throwed away less than 1kg. Dont buy more than you eat, simple.
End capitalism and state-capitalism, solve world hunger
Look up Sam Kinison on world hunger. Best take ever.
Nice one Simon, appreciate your daily vids
When we are hungry a lot of us eat until we are full instead of eating until we are not hungry. {Sadly I eat until full too}!
Sometimes we even eat past full when at a buffet, or on holidays at gatherings.
There will always be people hungry in the world as long as food costs, Why would the farmers the manual labourers the cleaners and so on work if food was free.
You can make the food free and still pay the labour done to produce it, it just isn't profitable, which is what the current economical system cares about.
@@milokojjones Literally nothing you just said is true
@@JS-wp4gs Do you have any argument against that, or will you just say that I'm wrong ?
Also liking your own comment is kind of lame - and yes I know it was you, because this is the second comment you responded to me and in both cases it got a like even though I looked at it like a minute after it has been posted.
Regardless, I would much rather you respond to my other comment inquiring why you think the children, disabled and elderly among many other groups of people should starve to death. Thank you in advance.