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It is strange talking about overproduction when large part of the world is hungry.

• amerine 5y ago
  OP is spot on. There’s a big reason we use corn for so much more than food today. We over produce it.
• goatlover 5y ago
  Growing enough food isn't the problem. Distribution, which includes economic and political factors, is the issue. Google tells me that 811 million people go hungry. That's a lot of people, but it's not a large part of the world, since 7 billion people presumably have enough to eat.
  • FpUser 5y ago
    That's the point. Instead of worrying about overproduction we should worry about distributing food to ones they need it. And 811 million is a huge number. Can't be ignored just because another 7B are ok. Also I suspect that there are more than 811 hungry. They're just not literally dying.
• imtringued 5y ago
  Zimbabwe could easily feed itself and export to other African nations until Mugabe basically threw out all the farmers because they are white. Sending food from developed nations might work over the short term but you know, before the industrial revolution every economy was an agricultural one. The only thing these countries can export is food. If the developed nations want to act as a parent, then they would obviously give a lot of things away for free, just like you give food to your children for free. That's not what's happening though. Institutions like the IMF are counting every dollar owed to them by developing countries.