Its the system that is hopelessly wrong. The indian economist Amartya Sen had some good points in his work on entitlements to food. Hunger is basically a function of the almost systematic deprival of food entitlements we see today … and not because we cannot produce enough food. It takes only a few people to make food to all.
And yes, we are probably also producing the wrong kinds of foods, and wheat and most grains are definitely not good answers to increase nutrition levels, as they basically are empty carbo hydrates.
Same in industrial products. We make too many wrong products, and it takes a few people to make enough products for everyone. We basically do not need to work full time, and at the same time we can distribute enough to everyone to have a sufficient decent life. It is possible to do this, but the neo-liberal capitalist ideologues will immediately jump the gun and cry “communist” if you try to change this order that we have now.
Poverty and the entitlement to food
