The Global Food Crisis. Why is noone talking about it?

[NJ5]

Kasz216 said:

NJ5 said:
Because it's fucking depressing?

So is global warming, the economy, the war in Iraq....

Those get talked about all the time.

Things like countries ethanol stances make things like Iraq and the Economy look like a joke.  Espiecally the US's since cron based Ethanol doesn't even do anything for the enviroment.

Also there are fairly easy steps the everyday citizen can take.

I mean, it takes 10 times the vegetables to make the same amount of beef.

Even if someone went one day they normally wouldn't without eating meat and going vegetarian it'd be a big deal.

Those other things are not as depressing as the food crisis, in my opinion. War is cool, stuff blowing up and all (it appeals to some level of our psyche). Watching the economy burn is also pretty interesting in some ways. Global warming also has some fun aspects. On the other hand, talking about starving people provides no entertainment whatsoever.

Regarding what you wrote about meat, I think it would be even better to just implement population control in some way. Saving food will only lead to more population, and potentially more suffering in the long term. I'm all for personal freedom, but if you don't have the money to feed your kids properly you should be forbidden from having any more kids, with some proper penalties for transgression.