Stop The World Going Hungry Analysis

In “Big Agriculture is the Only Option to Stop the World Going Hungry,” Jay Rayner states that, “We need to abandon the mythologies around agriculture, (…) and recognize that farming really is an industry, much like car manufacturing or steel forging,” Whether he is right or not is a matter of perspective. What Rayner saying, though, is that we will have to embrace the modern industrial methods of farming, for the good of sustainability and mass production, for the coming “food security storm.” By “food security storm,” he is talking about managing our imports and exports of food safely. The only way the author offers a solution to the security problem, is by simply saying that we must embrace the modern, unhealthy, and downright disgusting methods of the industry of food, and just suck it up. The problem at hand here is stopping the world from going hungry, but mass producing food, even if it is more sustainable and manageable, comes at costs greater than the profits that on the long run,

Famine and hunger are not upon us. In an article by Matt Ridley, he says that our resources are, in a way, unlimited. Regardless how many times we reach the environment’s limit and we allegedly exhaust its resources, we will naturally adapt to the environments scarcity and somehow produce something out of nothing. “Ecologists call this "niche construction"—that people (and indeed some other animals) can create new opportunities for themselves by making their habitats more productive in some way,” Says Matt Ridley. Though deemed impossible, it’s been done time and time again throughout history, and the biggest example of niche construction is agriculture. Instead of searching for our greens and veggies, like we, as animals, originally did, we exhausted our resources, and devised a way to create our own