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Food Famine Research Paper

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Many people might believe that global famine exists nowadays just in extremely poor places of the world and in not so high levels when indeed local level famines have erupted in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and parts of Latin America. Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That is about one in nine people on earth and the vast majority of the world's hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9 percent of the population is undernourished. Which is even sadder is to think that actually the amounts of food to help solve this situation exists around the world and instead of been designated to contribute with the cause it is thrown to garbage. “40% percent of the food that is produced …show more content…

Industrialized nations like the U.S. and U.K. waste 1.5 trillion pounds annually and the average American family of four tosses over 1,160 pounds of food a year, that’s 1.2 million calories, enough to provide one person over 3,200 calories of food a day. One of the causes of this wasting issue according to Dan Nickey, associate director of the Iowa Waste Reduction Center, is that “It's so cheap to buy food [that] we just look at it as a given, that it will always be there — 'I can go buy more tomorrow,' " (Dan Nickey. (2014). These food waste statistics will make you think twice about what you throw out. De foxnews Sitio web: …show more content…

But we cannot only solve this, we can prevent bigger catastrophes, troubles that put in risk the preservation of the environment. Whenever we dump our food, we lost a big amount of the labor and natural resources that are used in the elaboration of food, being the last one commonly known as limited natural resources, such as water, and most of the time, fossil fuels that are used to provide energy to the different factories that work with food. “40% percent of the food that is produced in the U.S. never gets eaten” (Natural Resources Defense Council). This, of course, brings a lot of consequences for the environment. Another direct consequence from the food waste is that all the food that is thrown away with other types of garbage, decomposes without air, which produces high levels of methane, a greenhouse gas that is even more dangerous than CO2, because it catches even more heat in the atmosphere than the already mention gas. We can say that this is not only a problem related to famine, their effects are even deeper that we can

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