BlkPaladin said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
BlkPaladin said:
Heh, if all the grain and food that earth produces was properly distributed there would be no hunger. There are news stories of hundreds of pounds of food sitting in storage containers rotting because it would be unprofitable to ship.
Plus in 1996 (so old stat) the US food industry wasted over 6 million tons of food that enough to feed ever single person on the planet two meals each day for that year. (Its probably worst now.) |
Sad stuff indeed. And that doesn't even cover all the food that (spoiled) people throw away on a daily basis. If politicians wanted to, I'm pretty sure there would be no people left without food...
Or maybe I'm just talking shit, I dunno.
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I work in the food industry and it hurts throw away food. But trying to get my other managers to manage the food properly is like trying to pull theeth. I usually arrive at work and there over $20 worth of food I have to throw out because the last manager just lets the cooks do what they want to and don't try to do their job. (When I can I take the food home some of the freshness times are intensionally set lower than what we can keep them. So I give them to other people to eat and to save on my food bill, as said I hate throwing food away.)
Another useless stat on how bad resources are managed. If every person that lived the past 6,000 years where a live they could have 2 acres of land (each person) and that would only take up the size of the state of Texas, the rest of the planet could be used for agracultral means. (This is an useless egg head stat that looks good on paper but you would probally never see it implemented)
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2 acres per person is a lot bigger than Texas. Texas has 172,044,800 acres, almost 4.3 million are water.
That would be enough for 86 million people to have 2 acres. So even if you had 10 states of Texas it wouldn't cover a billion people. You would need 81 just to cover the current world population. Not even beginning to cover all the other people over 6000 years.
total land in the world about 36.6 billion acres.
