“The fact that people need to eat causes tremendous environmental and social problems. The solution, clearly, is to reengineer ourselves so that we don’t have to eat and instead draw energy directly from the sun. That shouldn’t be hard at all! But just in case we hit some snags, we should have a backup solution ready.” Something simple, like eliminating poverty. Hunger is not due to a shortage of food since globally there is enough to go around. If we were to distribute 1% of our food supply to all the malnourished people in this world, the problem would be fixed. Therefore, if ending world hunger is possible, why hasn’t it been done? The simple answer is that our world is too selfish to care for others. Through human waste, obesity, poverty, population growth, and climate change our society has failed to aid almost 795 million malnourished people.
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Occasionally, we might even dump the unliked food into the trash, never really pausing to think about the importance of our action. When we have leftover scraps, it seems so routine too just get rid of them. Yet, our “small decision” makes it hard for the rest of the world to survive. Latin America has lost and wasted enough food in the past year, to feed up to 300 million people. While the food wasted in Europe could feed 200 million and the crops lost in Africa could nourish 300 million of the hungry. In the entire world, one third of the food produced, for human consumption, gets wasted. If just 25% of these nourishments could be saved, it would be enough to feed 870 million people, which is more than the current population of malnourished people in this world. "But how does the food we waste in our homes in the Western world actually affect developing