Can the planet feed 10 billion interesting read for farmers and consumers

[sumdumguy]

Have you seen the latest product at Costco. ..doomsday kits of food...enough for a year for 4....and shelf life of 30 years....

And yet there are starving people in the world...

It's been said for 50 years how are we going to feed 10 billion people....


NO one ****ing cares...

Trudeau could have donate the value of those costume to food aid instead of being a moron....

How much does a Doomsday Kit cost at Costco?

[Rareearth]

Only in New Mexico and Arizona?

[bucket]

up to 6000 dollars....canned lentils ....how about that

[wmoebis]

I believe feeding the world is far more hand to mouth than we realize, the problem is complacency and being comfortable living hand to mouth. If there was ever a huge disruption is supply caused by some natural out of our control phenomenon that reduced supplies going forward it would show just how precarious the balance actually is. Even without any food waste or spoilage.... how many "days" would that buy us...

Maybe 101 can show us a yearly world supply and demand chart, or stocks to use chart.

Steady as she goes until something huge upsets the routine.

With zero production, or maybe even severly reduced production, I think world stocks are measured in DAYS not years...

Think about it.

We all know Vancouver and west coast sits on a major fault. It is just when it happens. East shipments have mostly been done away with.

[bucket]

Wmoebis


Yup ....on Rocky Mountain railway program highlighted the containers coming into Vancouver destined to Toronto.

[burnt]

Main contributor to hunger is political difficulties, not agronomic limitations.

It will always be this way.

Human ingenuity has always responded positively to natural, existential challenges. It's the way we're made.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-world-has-a-surplus-of-food-so-why-cant-we-eliminate-hunger/article34709360/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-world-has-a-surplus-of-food-so-why-cant-we-eliminate-hunger/article34709360/

Seems to me that the world surplus is something like 50 or 60 days? Or maybe 90? But around those figures, if I'm not mistaken.

[macdon02]

Disrupting the current cheap food policy would stimulate the masses to grab torches and pitchforks. It's absolutely in govt best interest to keep the population cheaply fed. Hungry people get violent.

[fjlip]

Disrupting the current cheap food policy would stimulate the masses to grab torches and pitchforks. It's absolutely in govt best interest to keep the population cheaply fed. Hungry people get violent.

And every farmer on earth ,oh except French pissed of farmers, never get violent, just keep getting screwed by the 98% NOT farmers. Society has nothing to fear from farmers, but 98% hungry would be chaos. We lose every time the options are weighed behind closed doors. The 98 can put down any pissed of farmers easily. At the ballot box even easier.

[farmaholic]

My point has nothing to do with the ability of getting adequate supplies to where they're needed. Or politically induced famine or hunger is in fact a reality.....

The point was an inadequate supply.

Successive catastrophic crop failures due to volcanic winters, longterm continuous devastating droughts, meteor strike, go ahead and laugh.....man is no match for the power of Mother Nature.

We probably can feed the world's forecasted 10 billion people.....if we're allowed to, by the grace of Mother Nature.

[FarmJunkie]

Ever wonder why gun control rules in Canada are way different than the US. If shit ever hit the fan the masses would riot and there would be chaos and dead bodies everywhere. When people get hungry they do whatever it takes to survive. I believe Farma is right that the food supply is tighter than they let on. Can’t keep the prices low if supplies are tight. Another thing that a lot of people can’t fathom is the amount of tonnes of food we waste in this country. We could feed thousands of people with what we throw away.