Luther Tweeten and Caial Zulouf writes “Feeding the world” from The futurist (2000) in this they inform us that the world population had reached six billion, and that the world’s death and birth rates are equal. They suggest that the world has more people and less production to allow for an increase in population. It is explained in more of an economic stand point, in which he is informing economist, business men and women that there needs to be a greater supply so that everyone can eat. They also think that if the world continues to populate at the same rate as the supply does then there will someday be a food shortage. We are not just using food to eat and feed other things but to create a better tomorrow like the creation of bio fuels. While having bio fuels and other things may seem like a good thing considering that gas, oil, and coal, causes a lot of pollution and may well be the cause of global warming. The world is then left with another situation since population has reached an all time high.
In David J. Tenenbaum article “Food vs Fuel,” from Current Health …
Kristen Weir wrote “The Food Hike” for Current Health (2008) in which she justifies and builds this article on the basis that there is more demand for food but just not enough for the growing society. She lets us know that we may have a shortage of food because less is being supplied but this is not the only reason people are going hungry. Also there are more resources being needed to produce less of another food, like beef and pork and more is going to other things also. Grains are not just used to feed us, and other animals they are also used to make fuel and experiment with other things. In 2006 one fifth of the US corn was used to make ethanol, and sure this is not a bad thing but considering people do not have enough food. Why use that much of our food to make ethanol. If more farmers decide to change their farm land into produce plants for bio fuels then there will be less farmland to grow on. She writes this article for readers who are concerned that there will not be enough food to feed their family and she explains why all this is so. It is the rising price of other things that make it harder for us to eat; it also makes it harder for farmers and other corporations to supply food. She explains that when oil and gas prices go up less has to be produce to offset the cost of gas. While gas may be a very high factor in the shortage of production it is not just that but also the weather changes that have went on. More food has been destroyed this year alone due to natural disasters then ever before.
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ReplyDeleteGreat choice of articles, they seem really interesting as this problem is so crucial to the very exitence of mankind.
There were a few typos (like "then" instead of "than" in the very last sentence), but I'm sure you'll get all that in the final draft. The first thing I noticed though, was that the first sentence is a little strange. I think rewording it to something like "Luther Tweeten and Caial Zulouf wrote the article “Feeding the world” in The Futurist (2000) where they inform us that the world population had reached six billion, and that the death and birth rates are equal." Not that it can't be understood as is, but I think some better wording would make the article start off a little better.
I think you'll have some great material to intertwine the three articles with the topics of rapid population growth and food shortage to make it an interesting piece.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your summaries and you picked a really interesting topic. I especially liked the first paragraph and I had nbo idea that there was a potential shortage for food!
I would suggest maybe revising the first paragraph because first you talk about population...and then the food shortage and the addition of bio fuels seems a little bit random...? Other than that, just the few tyops as mentioned above.
Hi Lori,
ReplyDeleteI liked your topic I had no idea that there would be a food shortage in the up coming years. Were there any suggestions on what we could do to help this situation?
I also think you could make a few minor adjustments to the 1st paragraph just for clarity. Maybe a sligt restructure of the points you are trying to make will help out.
Hello Lori,
ReplyDeleteThe topic of food shortages should bring out some intriguing debate, from students as well as experts on the subject. Providing some constructive criticism, I found the draft to lack fluency in some areas (this of course is coming from a fellow student), i.e. your first sentence in which you wrote, “Luther Tweeten and Caial Zulouf writes “Feeding the world” from The futurist (2000) in this they inform us that the world population had reached six billion, and that the world’s death and birth rates are equal.” Ok, that’s enough of the criticism I prefer discussion.
I once heard someone speak of this and state that the world would not be as populated today if agriculture did not start using lab produced nitrogen, i.e. chemical fertilizers. Speaking of economics, some areas of the world that have experienced famine have the capacity to feed their populations but the people either cannot afford the food to buy at market, the infrastructure does not exist (improved roads) or they are growing crops for export (checkout Niger in West Africa). There will come a time when a small ration will cost a day’s wage.