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We can easily grow enough food, the problem is delivering it to areas where politics keeps the food out of the hands of the people.
I agree. Distribution and economics are the primary cause of hunger and malnutrition, not crop yields.
It's a complicated issue though. There may be some cases where GMOs could say, allow farmers to grow food in dry or salty soils.
So I'm not anti-GMO, but I am a GMO-cynic. Feeding poor people doesn't make more profit. So biotechnology companies instead create crops that are herbicide resistant and goldfish that glow in the dark.
World hunger is just a pretext to propagate GMO stuff. The companies behind that stuff want to make money, lots of it, and that won't come from poor people, but from developed countries where the money is. After all, if they were interested in solving the hunger problem, they would not register lots of patents, but freely make their results and techniques available to everyone.
We can easily grow enough food, the problem is delivering it to areas where politics keeps the food out of the hands of the people.
We have a large scale corporate model. So one must consider the bias of anyone studying this issue.
This report does indeed discuss waste. However, they seem to be pointing the finger at consumption.
Always the favored choice in a corporate system, especially where govt is concerned. One should always delve into the specifics. However, GMO isn't really about feeding the hungry. Transport accounts for the majority of cost in food. Growing food locally makes more sense for many reasons, but would disrupt the giant corporate model, which exports production and imports consumption. There are many studies and reports put out. They even are throwing green house gas in some reports.
FoodWaste Remains a Big Problem for 2013
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Food waste is a big problem in industrialized countries. The economic impact of food waste in the U.S. is equivalent to $197.7 billion, according to a report by the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN). Titled Food Wastes: Causes, Impacts and Proposals, the report estimates that waste during the consumption stage in the U.S. is equivalent to $124.1 billion. The costs on average for a family of four are about $1,600 a year. In the distribution state, food waste equals $64.6 billion.
New report highlights foodwaste
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A report released today (10 January) by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers has found that between 30 and 50 per cent of all food produced around the world is never consumed by humans.
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Why do GMO (anti-labeling) supporters think world hunger can be solved with GMOs?
