I had to waste time in my life and make this page due to idiots thinking that a fat person is the cause to world hunger and if they stopped having TWO slices of cake everything will be right with the world and all poverty, and war will end. It doesn't work that way. We HAVE the food to feed people, it's money THEY don't have. It's GREED that is preventing those people being fed. not some chubby person eating an extra burger.Don't sit here and complain about obese people eating is the cause of world hunger when you just threw good food away because you did;t want anymore.
Consumerism
Commercialism
Capitalism
Corporate greed (from food companies)
Consumerism
Commercialism
Capitalism
Corporate greed (from food companies)
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste (HBO)
- "Thing I've been thinking about:The wealthy elite - though often slender because of classed body standards - consume A MASSIVE, disproportionate amount of resources - like our lives would look completely different if we weren't consistently footing the bill of the greedy and pathologically ambitious. Meanwhile by comparison the working class - though often bigger bodied - I would argue consume far less and make a much smaller impact on daily life. And yet the poor are constructed as the burden - constantly perceived as needing to be "saved" but in truth only needing support because the wealthy make situations so unlivable for the average person." - Virgie Tovar
- Did you know that every Christmas we waste £64 million on uneaten food? | Food + Drink | Lifestyle | London Evening Standard
- UNDERSTANDING FOOD WASTE IN ONE EASY TO READ INFOGRAPHIC
- FOOD WASTE FACTS @UNEP "Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted....In the United States 30% of all food, worth US$48.3 billion (€32.5 billion), is thrown away each year. It is estimated that about half of the water used to produce this food also goes to waste, since agriculture is the largest human use of water. (Jones, 2004 cited in Lundqvist et al., 2008)"
- The real hunger games: How banks gamble on food prices – and the poor lose out - "Before it was deregulated in the year 2000, the agricultural commodities futures market was used mainly by farmers and food buyers seeking to insure themselves against changes in the prices of products such as wheat, maize and sugar. When George W Bush passed the Commodities Futures Modernization Act 12 years ago, there was an influx, led by Goldman Sachs, of purely financial players who had no interest in ever buying food, but who sought solely to profit from changes in food prices, says Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food."
- Food speculation @ Globel Justice - "Banks are earning huge profits from betting on food prices in unregulated financial markets. This creates instability and pushes up global food prices, leaving millions going hungry and facing deeper poverty. In January 2014, after four years of our campaign, the EU agreed to introduce new rules to prevent hedge funds and investment banks from driving up food prices."
- Food speculation: 'People die from hunger while banks make a killing on food'
- "14. The world isn’t overpopulated. There’s plenty of food to go round. World agriculture produces 17% more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago despite a 70% population increase, due to rising yields, higher farming intensity and more use of land. The real problems are the system of distribution and energy use. If the rich world didn’t hog all the food and produce it inefficiently there’d be enough for everyone."credit
- Supermarkets Waste Tons Of Food As They Woo Shoppers - "Historically, produce like those brown-dotted bananas would be headed for the landfill. "[It's a] perfectly good banana," says store director Paul Hoppman. But "it won't sell because it just doesn't look good.""A full 10 percent of the available food supply in the U.S. is wasted every year at the retail level, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and about 20 percent is wasted at home. That's food worth more than $160 billion. And it's food that could go toward feeding the estimated 1 in 7 American households that can't find enough to eat."
- Why Grocery Stores Like Trader Joe's Throw Out So Much Perfectly Good Food by Harrison Jacobs
- Half of the world's food is thrown away? Come on, supermarkets: give us ‘imperfection’
And if you want to use this excuse, that fat people cause world hunger, make sure you are vegan because eating meat is the cause for food shortages.