Are we eating too much?

Food shortage is usually caused by bad weather destroying the crops or preventing them growing due to lack of rain. This is the real scare about climate change. We have to grow food to feed 6.5 billion people every day. Just try to think of that for a minute. Our average consumption would be at least two pounds of food for each person. That's mean we have to produce 13 billion pounds of food every day in order to feed our ever growing population. If we have a major natural disaster over a major productive country... we are in big trouble. Some people eat too much... but they can only eat so much. And I don't think that it is the reason for any food shortage.

That really isn't likely. If prices rise so much here that I can't buy food then nobody is going to give me a meal regardless if you and your whole family ate less overall. Eating less won't infulence the price of things. The price you pay in a store for a product is made up of many components such as the cost to produce it, transport it, package it, tax etc etc. When you consider that transport for example will be influenced by how much gas/diesel costs and that in turn is traded in USD you'll realise that having a weak dollar is probably the cause of the higher prices. Although a little less corruption and better management is never a bad thing either.

i do not think we are eating yoo much. actually there are many factors for this situation. they say 1. there has not been any incraese in productuion for long,whereas the demand increases. 2. many food grains are used as alternatic=ve fuels 3,mainly the population growth

very interesting discussion. I don't think that people eat too much...well some do but I doubt that's the reason that prices got so high. I think that there's someone who wants to earn a lot of money and is sitting on the top of the chaing. I actually think that THEY rised prices so much only because they can. I know this big chane of food whose owner is really but really rich, he has shops in didfferent bgger towns and what he does when he opens the shop in some smaller town is to buy the small shops that were there before him, or he starts selling them stuff so more or less every shop is his in that town and people have to buy from him. So he can decde about the prices. In a bigger town, although its a same chane, same things cost much less than in the smaller town. Then, during the summer, when there are many tourists in this little town I am telling you about, he rise the prices for at lest 15% to 20% and he does it because he owns most of the shops in the town so he can set the price as high as he wants. I hope that I have prooved my theory with the example I gave. If 1l of milk cost 80 cents or even less during the winter why then if you go to that town on 1st July you are going to pay for the same liter of milk at least $1.20 and on 1 September the milk will go back to 80 cents? He does that only because he knows that he can and that people will still buy in his shop rather than drive for several miles to get to another town, a bigger one. And even if people go to a different town to buy food they won't go every day, so they will still buy some of the stuff in his shops.

The fact is people of some country eats five times than an Indian.Rise in price of esse tial commodities depends on many factor. Lower crop production.Some timme due to lower crop production the demand supply ratio cannot meet.So that the price of the crops rises. Artificial crisis. This done by storing the food in ware houses to rise the price of the commodites when the price of commodity rises then they sell. Importing the food in high price to meet the demand.

The comments made by George W Bush created quite a stir among Indians that Indians eat to much and this causes increse in the global food prices. Well statistically this can be biter fact but the reason is something else. The distribution system in India is very much biased as supply side is owned by the previlage ones. The thing is I don't care all I need is food that fills my tummy.

Are you making this statement in response to the statement made by Bush recently, thin I think this is a foolish statment. In some countries food is wasted like nothing. India is now growing and becoming more strong and developed and I think this should not hurt others. Eating toomuch or less is not in ones hands. If one is hungry he eats what he can affort and digest. Obvioudly people dont eat just for fun. It is based on requirement and availability.

I don't think food shortage is due to over eating of people. If people are buying more food, indirectly the money is in flow and this round and round flow of money in the market helps economy and does not harm anyone. Yes hoarding and corruption surely can be the reason for this. Let me tell you I am already eating less now a days as I want to loose weight. I don't know about others, but I am definitely not wasting any food. Of course I do care and wish every body had enough to eat.

The reason is partly correct.Actually there i no control .Rich are buying everything with high cost & wasting it also .But many poor people are not able to purchase them.Also the population increase is also one of the main reason.

Well I think the cost is more related to the extreme cost of gas which is having a trickel down effect. At least that is the case for here in the USA. I think it has alot to do with the miss management of our goverment that we are now in the deep trouble we are in. Someone is getting very rich and it is not the regular guy thats for sure.

Yes i agree with ur statement . if i buying some .it so expensive