There’s fast food and there’s hunger.
Posted by kjord on March 19, 2008
Something I surely never thought about before, all of the fast food restaurants in the developed countries actually contribute more to third world hunger than one might think. One third of all the grains in the world are used to feed the livestock’s, while people consume almost all of the rice, a lot of the corn and wheat products are used as feed, some statistics are saying as much as 80 percent. The animals used to make all our hamburgers, chicken burgers, roast beef sandwiches and other $1.99 goodies are consuming a huge majority of resources. One half of the water used in the U.S. is for grain productions that feed cattle, that is just in the United States. Put in the factor of all the exports that are needed to produce fast food and you can imagine the amount being used. When these exports are purchased, companies want the lowest cost possible and will search of the lowest bidder to the ends of the earth to find it, you there wouldn’t be a dollar menu if grains weren’t bought at a ridiculously low price, a wage someone has to live off might I add. When it costs 25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat and 2,500 gallons to produce a pound of beef, we have to realize who suffers the most. (http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/Hunger/Causes.asp)
