Food, Food, Food, Everywhere but not enough to Eat

The Article "The Scarcity Facility", by Stephen J. Scanlan, J. Craig Jenkins and Lindsey Peterson, describes the issue of food scarcity around the world. It opens peoples eye's by showing clear information that shows data from the last couple decades. It is important to inform the public that the real problem is not lack of food which is what many people think. The article shows this by showing that we actually have an access per person. The concentration of the food stays in rich countries and the majority of starving are in poor. The article also describes that the majority of the starving are women, children and minorities. What is interesting in the article is that some of the poorest countries in the world are exporting the highest percentage of their food and have the most hungry.

This is where I draw the line I think this is wrong. I personally think that if your people are hungry why are you begging for help when you are making the problem worse. This is the problem with corrupt governments in poor countries, they have so much control the people suffer from it. This is one of the eleven points the ONE campaign wants to change is governments corruption the way to do this is through education. I also think there has to be a help yourself mentality and that if we are providing funding it needs to be monitored otherwise it will be used to corrupt even more issues.

Is our funding being used correctly?

Is there a way for countries to be independent?

How much help is to much?

What is the biggest cause of hunger?