Do farmers in the U.S. produce enough food that could technically end hunger in the U.S.?

Question

If so, why is there still a hunger issue in the U.S?

Answer 1

There is no real hunger problem in the U.S.

Anyone who is currently getting inadequate food supply to sustain life is deliberately refusing the government and charitable services available.  This includes mostly people with certain mental conditions and drug problems that are not being treated properly -- thus, even this small number represents a failure in the mental health system, not a hunger problem.

Answer 2

Actually, there is very little hunger in the U.S.  Think about it when was the last time anybody actually starved to death?  If you want to see real hunger, you need to go somewhere else.

Answer 3

More to the point why is the USA importing food ,such as meat from Brazil,fruits and coffee,and rice .

a global fact which will affect food supplies is that

Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people, are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.

This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.

again Globally

Each year The farmers have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.

Over the last half century,

Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .

Answer 4

Yes they do.  In fact, the government has several programs in effect right now which pays the farmer to let some of his land lay idle rather than raising crops.  We produce so much food that we can't get rid of all of it.  Logistics is a problem.  How to get the food from the fields to the people who need it.  BTW, there should not be a hunger problem in the US.  The government gives out food stamps on a regular basis, but people trade their food stamps for drugs and alcohol rather than feeding their families.  My grandmother used to work for the government, signing up people who needed food to get commodities.  People would refuse some of the food because "their kids were to picky to eat that".  My uncle was a meat cutter in a grocery store.  One day a guy came in and filled his cart with every T-bone steak in the meat case.  My uncle asked him of he was having a bar-b-q.  He said, "No, these are for my dog.  They won't let me buy dog food with food stamps."  Things like this kind of make you see the problem in a different way.

Answer 5

There's plenty of food, the problem is poverty.  The farmers won't give it away as they have to make a living selling it.  Everyone can help though.  I give to Samaritan's Purse myself but there are lots of food banks where we can  donate.