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We will fix world hunger by MOVING BACKWARDS?!
Hello everyone,
I've had the topic of food challenge on my mind for the past few days, indirectly so. I'm trying to gain muscle, and all the muscle building articles talk about taking in more calories. So every time I sit down to a meal, I wonder who is starving at the moment. Not to the point where I am overcome with grief, but it sits at the back of my mind. I could imagine that every bite I take, someone in the world is dying for starvation. Maybe I'm exaggerating, maybe I'm not. But the point is, at this time, we're in a very competitive mindset when it comes to food, meaning that someone has to lose for someone else to gain. Living in a developed country (Canada), we're indirectly competing for food, also indirectly leaving others food-less. Even within our over-consumerist country, many more are going to bed hungry.
So the problem of hunger has come to my attention recently. There are a lot of announcements at my school to bring canned foods for the hungry of our community. The increased call for canned goods has worried me a bit, because that must have meant the problem has increased in severity. Or maybe it's been brought to my attention more.
After investigating in the articles provided by EVOKE, I see it's much worse in other places; that much I already knew. Back in 2009, one of my work friends said that we could start seeing food riots as soon as 2012 (that was when the economy was going downhill, but there's still truth to it).
The bullet point of this post is to insinuate my ideas into the mix. This is what I propose: "In order to fix food challenges, we have to move backwards." Sounds crazy right? But what does that mean, really? Backwards how?
I mean backwards in the way that we plant and cultivate our foods. Pesticides, herbicides, and all that lot is simply removing nutrient value from our soil, and causes run-off. Organic hummus (soil with the most nutritional value) is losing its ability to store water because of the lack of bacteria in the soil. So water just pa**** through. As time pa****, we begin to see something called 'desertification'. There's just plain more sand, and global warming/climate change isn't helping. If there're more deserts, there're less crops, less crops mean less food.
So let's reverse engineer that, if we stop trying to progress the way we make food, and let nature take its course, it might take a little bit longer to create yields, but they will be high quality, and most likely more abundant as each year pa****. We also have to encourage organic farming, and not be so ignorant about bacteria (there are good kinds and bad times).
And to fix food problems as soon as possible, we need to fix our community first. We cannot help others until we help ourselves first.
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