It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.
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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
Time is money in the shipping business.
We donate a lot of food to rescue organizations.
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding.
Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding the organisations that facilitate it.
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