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On the last point: This kind of reasoning has been repeated over and over again with any "food technology" rolled out since the beginning of agriculture 12,000
by noiv 12y ago
On the last point: This kind of reasoning has been repeated over and over again with any "food technology" rolled out since the beginning of agriculture 12,000 years ago. Still people are hungry. Maybe it is time to find out whether working on the root cause actually fixes the hunger in the world.
- Blahah 12y agoFood technology has, in the last 100 years, almost completely eradicated famine and has raised over a billion people out of severe nutritional deficit. I'm not saying don't try to fix other things. I'm saying do both.
- noiv 12y agoIn the last 100 years food waste has amounted to 1.3 billion tons per year. That's almost half of the global production. There is clearly no need to produce more food to solve hunger.
- Blahah 12y agoThat would only be true if the food wasted would otherwise be going to the world's hungry. This is not the case. Most of the world's poor do not import food, they grow it in their immediate vicinity. Increased yields help them directly. If you have a solution to the food distribution problem, by all means let's work on that at the same time. But there's no reason not to work on crop efficiency.