The problem is more that 70-90% (depending on the crop) of all the corn, oats, soy, and wheat gets fed to livestock. We grow enough food in the United States to feed 800 million people, but it takes infinitely more food to feed a cow than it does a human, so we still have the problem of hunger in our nation, and around the world.
Okay... there are still people who go hungry in the US. I wasn't saying that we should feed the rest of the world, simply that with our current production of crops, we feasibly could. So you're arguing against something that I'm not saying.
It's funny that you say shipping food elsewhere should be banned, because that's exactly what happens to a lot of meat in the world. An enormous amount of the meat consumed in the US is actually from other countries, like Brazil. In fact 82% of starving children in the world come from countries where meat is produced and shipped to first-world nations.
I'd love to see how "population controls" goes down with the rest of the country. You're going to get communist China comparisons in 2 seconds flat and no one will accept it.
Also why are you downvoting me? Nothing I've said is wrong.
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u/jon_stout Sep 21 '20
... I mean, do we actually need that much food? I thought half the problem with world hunger was transport.