Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger?

Want to make videos like mine? Check out Storyblocks! https://storyblocks.com/secondthought We re often told just how productive a capitalist economy is. We produce far more than we need...so why are there still so many hungry and malnourished people? In this episode we ll investigate the real cause of world hunger, and assess whether capitalism has the tools to solve this massive problem. Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger? – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every Friday! Citations and Further Reading: The Elon Musk world hunger tweet saga https://www.abc10.com/article/news/verify/business-verify/elon-musk-indicated-2021-to-donate-6-billion-to-fighting-solving-world-hunger-if-un-met-conditions/536-cad0e59e-775d-4c3d-a309-b3ef93379a71 https://fortune.com/2022/02/15/elon-musk-5-7-billion-donation-weeks-after-asking-un-world-hunger/ 829 million people/~10% of people https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-statistics 25,000 daily deaths https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/hunger-and-obesity/how-many-people-die-from-hunger-each-year 3.1 million children die of malnutrition every year https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/jun/06/malnutrition-3-million-deaths-children World hunger is on the rise https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-statistics Famines https://www.wfp.org/stories/hunger-hotspots-4-countries-face-famine-un-report-warns Food insecurity affects 38 million Americans https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-u-s/key-statistics-graphics/#insecure Food insecurity affects 8% of American children https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2022/february/food-insecurity-for-households-with-children-rose-in-2020-disrupting-decade-long-decline/ We produce enough to feed 10 billion people https://doi.org/10.1080/10440046.2012.695331 Our Changing Climate’s food waste video https://youtu.be/1MpfEeSem_4? ⅓ of the food produced, 1.3 billion tons, gets wasted each year https://www.wfp.org/stories/5-facts-about-food-waste-and-hunger#:~:text=1.,worth%20 approximately%20 US%241%20 trillion Food waste along the supply chain https://www.foodengineeringmag.com/articles/97511-food-waste-in-the-supply-chain 34% of the food grown gets wasted at the farm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344919301296#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20we%20found%2011%2C299,estimating%20on%2Dfarm%20food%20losses Farmers respond to price fluctuations https://jacobin.com/2017/03/food-production-hunger-waste-agriculture-commodity-capitalism Farm waste during the pandemic https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html “Ugly produce” companies aren’t helping https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/01/ugly-produce-startups-food-waste/581182/ https://newrepublic.com/article/152596/hungry-harvest-box-ugly-produce-help-planet-or-hurt-it Best before dates aren’t regulated/standardized https://www.vox.com/22559293/food-waste-expiration-label-best-before 40 million Americans live in food deserts https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts Supermarkets stock 10x larger food products and plates have increased 36% in size http://www.meta-systems.eu/nickbrown/duplication/PortionSizeMe/(Annotated%20vs%202013)%20Wansink,%20van%20Ittersum%20-%202007%20-%20Portion%20Size%20Me%20-%20Downsizing%20Our%20Consumption%20Norms.pdf Refrigerators have gotten 30% bigger and cost half as much https://appliance-standards.org/product/refrigerators-and-freezers The commodification of food https://jacobin.com/2017/03/food-production-hunger-waste-agriculture-commodity-capitalism Structural adjustment programs https://www.globalissues.org/article/3/structural-adjustment-a-major-cause-of-poverty Gambian fish story https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/06/URBINA/63205 Food for beginners https://archive.org/details/FoodForBeginners-CartoonBook-SusanGeorge/mode/2up World hunger book (outdated statistics, but the analysis is still relevant) https://www.tni.org/files/download/howtheotherhalfdies.pdf http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj86/obrien.htm Twelve myths about world hunger http://cf.linnbenton.edu/artcom/social_science/clarkd/upload/x-Twelve%20Myths%20About%20World%20Hunger.pdf Food justice is class war https://jacobin.com/2016/09/agriculture-ecology-food-justice-farmworkers-local-climate/ Unequal exchange https://youtu.be/4lDZaKjfs4E https://www.tni.org/es/node/4597 Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com