Why is the world fat?

The #1 issue in the world is obesity, with starvation following closely. Why is that? Why don't the countries just redistribute the food to help those starving?

Starvation led to AIDS, Ebola, and other viruses-- people who don't have access to food eat bushmeat. #fact

http://www.wallacebishop.com/Obesity-News.html

Because of rotation the world is slightly "thicker" around the ecuator

happy to say I never plan to be obese

Because people are lazy and people are encouraged to embrace being fat.

It's it becaus of an over abundance of food in wealthy countries.

It's because there's too much junk food. And becaus they are cheap many of the poor will eat this junk causing bigger waistlines.


Even if we bring food to the poor countries if we give them junk they'll gain weight but that would make them worse off than starvation.

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I was just about to mention Meghan Trainor but then i looked at your sig

Starvation wouldn't exist if the world's supply of grain was fed to the poor instead of wasted on animals that only make the ones who eat them fatter and sicker.

True.

If the world altogether stopped eating meat, there would be so much more food for the world as a whole.

Only 10% of energy from plants is transferred into animals that eat them and only 10% of the energy that those animals have are transferred to the animal that eat those. Vegetation would no longer have to be fed to so many animals we like to eat like pork, cow and chicken, instead we'd have excess which could be shared throughout the world as the value of food goes down.

I don't agree with this. If I want some fish or chicken I'll eat it.

We have a problem were the rich countries have too much. You don't even know how many times I see resteraunts throw away fresh food that could be eaten by the poor.