World food.

[Kirk Nechamkin]

S A Croft (S.A.Croft at shef.ac.uk) wrote:
: It has been suggested to me that there are enough crop plants grown 
: world-wide to feed the entire population of the Earth, and the only 

I have heard that there are enough crop plants grown in the U.S. to
sustain 1/4 of the world population.

: reason that food shortages occur are due to distribution problems.  

Well, what can you do when 5 million people are starving 8000 miles
away? Continually jet tons and tons of food over, only to cause an
even greater dependance due to population expansion?

-Kirk
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