Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.
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.
A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.
Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.
People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.
We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.
People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.