Overpopulation: World Food Ration

Question

I once read that if every person on the planet were rationed the same amount of food, everyone would be starving.

Does anyone know if this is true or where I might have read it? Google isn't helping to refresh my memory.

Answer 1

i think at first everyone may feel like they are starving,because they are used to bigger portions,but it takes your body two weeks to get used to new eating  habits . i can say that it would also have to do with your medical needs,because some people have diabetes,or problems with blood pressure.therefor they must eat more.also,allergies,so no everyone would get the same thing.i dont the think the u.s. would be a good place for this idea.i think africa would ,because they are starving now and would be happy with what they got.i hoped this helped.if not you got someones opinon and maybe now look at the world from a different view.

Answer 2

Half of the worlds food production is diverted for the making of Ethanol,

as part of a master plan to depopulate by starving a lot of people and making money on the way.

so the world produces more than enough food at present.

but a lot of it ends up in the car.

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Answer 3

The world is a huge place so overpopulation is a myth started by the anti-human environmentalists.  The problem is not enough food, but getting the food to where it is needed.  I don't know how many times I've read about or heard that people in Third World h**l holes are starving and food is rotting away in warehouses.  Or to get the food to where it's needed, guards, soldiers, and corrupt police officers have to be paid huge bribes to get the food to the people.  

I agree somewhat.  It's kind of embarrassing to live in a country where diseases can be caused by too much food.  We are all under-nourished, yet over fed.  

Answer 4

clearly, some in the US would feel deprived.

however, since most of the people in the world are not currently starving, i think that would not be the outcome.

that being the case, i think i wouldn't trust whoever you might have read it from.

google didn't help me much either.

Answer 5

Overpopulation is a myth.

Answer 6

No, that's not true at all.  If everyone were rationed the same amount of food, everyone would be well fed.  Americans and other first world countries would be eating a whole lot less meat, but we would still be well fed.

The world does not CURRENTLY have a problem producing enough food.  The problem is distribution of food.  There are certainly places in the world where flooding, drought, blight, war, locusts, ect completely wiped out an areas ability to produce food.  The problem is many of those areas are poor (financially) areas.  They cannot afford to import food.  

If all the food were distributed evenly, there would be no starvation (currently).  However it is possible that the Ug99 wheat rust is going to be causing some serrious problems with the world's food supply.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years