Luther Tweeten and Caial Zulouf wrote “Feeding the world” in The futurist (2000) in this they inform us that the world’s 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 not enough production to allow for an increase in population. It is explained in more of an economic stand point, in which they inform economist, business men and women that there needs to be an increase in supply so that everyone can eat. They think that if the world population continues to increase at the same rate that the supply is then there will someday be a shortage of food. Food is not just being used to feed us and animals but it is also being used to create things like biofuel. While having biofuels 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. But if food production does not increase in the upcoming years we will indefinably have a food shortage. With the population increase there is more demand for food but the production has not changed. So there needs to be a drastic decrease in the population or there needs to be an increase in supply.
More and more food is being used to create biofuels. Biofuels are better for the environment; so many people think because of that biofuels will help create a better tomorrow. But then the world is left with another situation which can prove to be worse than pollution.
In David J. Tenenbaum article “Food vs. Fuel” in Environmental Health Prospective (2008) he explains that the more we use food for other things like biofuels the less we have for ourselves. The population has increased and the diversion of crops has also increase leaving us with a big problem to solve. Feeding your family maybe your number one priority but it may not be your nations. In the United States the production of biofuels has nearly tripled from what it was six years ago, while this has happened to decrease the dependency of oil from other countries. The population of America has increased each year but the production of food has not increased enough so that we can feed our family and create biofuels. They are trying to prevent their dependence for oil from other countries for oil but they are instead increasing their dependence for food. They are going about it the wrong way. Tenenbaum wrote this article to inform environmentalist, people in the oil business and economist so that they will change their perspective on how they will handle the shortage of oil and food.
Every family needs to be able to adequately provide their families with food. There is not enough food to go around and the prices just keep going up. How will we ever be able to provide food for ourselves?
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 to feed everyone. She lets us know that we may have a shortage of food because there is less 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. The change in temperature around the farming lands also have began to make a greater impact on the farming.
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