Live Where The Food Is! World Hunger, Logistics, and Politics

An article in the latest National Geographic on Food states that the worlds farmers produce enough food to feed every human being on earth roughly 2868 calories per day, 768 calories more than the recommended 2100 calories per day by the World Food Programme. So why is there still hunger in the world? Why do approximately 40 Million people per year die of hunger and close to 1 Billion suffer some adverse effects from nutritional shortcomings?

We know why:

• War 
• Lack of infrastructure 
• Weather 
• Natural disasters 
• Government corruption 
• Lack of leadership 

Besides these reasons there is one more. In the areas of the world where we have more than enough we keep some people out. We maintain what we have by limiting the numbers of people and types of people we allow into our lands. We take care of our own. Nothing wrong with that in terms of survival. It is a fact. But most of us probably believe in more than just survival of the fittest. So we try to help by giving to those nations that have less. Problem is the problems listed above.

Comedian Sam Kinison had a famous rant about hunger:

"You want to help world hunger? Stop sending them food. Don't send them another bite, send them U-Hauls. Send them a guy that says, "You know, we've been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we were driving through the desert, and we realized there wouldn't BE world hunger if you people would live where the FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? IT'S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT! We have deserts in America, we just don't LIVE in them, assholes!" The video of this can be viewed here: