This series will look at how our food is used, abused, manipulated and controlled by the Market forces of Capitalism that are administered through the Politics of Neoliberalism, the final piece in this series will explore what we can do in our own lives to regain control of this most vital human need. Everything that we need to live and survive as human beings is controlled, manipulated and exploited in the name of profit and so called growth, corporate business leaders and Capitalist Politicians are well aware of the fact that if we didn’t have the human basics that we would simply perish, and it is on this fact that they ruthlessly play their savage games on their psychopathic and greedy quest towards control and profit. 
Dying of hunger in the modern super efficient world of high tech agriculture and capitalism
Whilst levels of obesity in the West are reaching chronic levels Every year Millions of men, women and children die needlessly due to being denied access to food, what makes this more disgusting is the fact that according to the UN around a third or more of the global food supply is thrown away on a yearly basis, this food could easily be relocated to the starving people who need it, but instead is thrown away as part of profit and loss tax scams where companies benefit financially, whilst hungry people die.
The facts: food, starvation and malnutrition
- 870 million people do not have enough to eat and 98 percent of them live in developing countries. (Source: FAO news release,2012)
- Asia and Oceania are home to around 564 million of the world’s hungry people.
(Source: FAO news release,2012) - Women make up a little over half of the world’s population, but they account for over 60 percent of the world’s hungry.
(Source: Strengthening efforts to eradicate hunger…, ECOSOC, 2007) - Almost 15% of the population among developing countries is undernourished, or about 850 million people.
(Source: FAO news release, 2012)
- Undernutrition contributes to five million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries.
(Source: Under five deaths by cause, UNICEF, 2006) - One out of four children – roughly 146 million – in developing countries is underweight
(Source: The State of the World’s Children, UNICEF, 2007) - More than 70 percent of the world’s underweight children (aged five or less) live in just 10 countries, with more than 50 per cent located in South Asia alone;
(Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006) - 10.9 million children under five die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths;
(Source: The State of the World’s Children, UNICEF, 2007)
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