With Americans wasting 25% of their food, a massive food shortage threatening to bring famine across the world, floods preventing corn, soy, and wheat crops that we've grown dependent on from making up for the shortfall, many are acknowledging that a global food crises is at hand. Riots have broken out in many countries and people in the United States are noticing the inflating food prices.
If the government would stop subsidizing grade 2 corn production and turn the land back into localized agriculture, if corporations would stop squandering corn in colas, ethanol, and other wastes of land, if Americans would stop eating so much and throwing away so much, we might be able to get out of this mess. As with so many things, I fear that most Americans just don't care about their own future or the future of others.
As hunger continues to spread across the world, the United States faces one more ethical failure to confront. Our debt to the world for our waste, greed, and self-destructive consumption habits has grown unbearable.
The time to localize agriculture is yesterday. The time to stop wasting is yesterday. We must do these things now.
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