Frozen foods have no expiration date.
Although frozen foods have a much longer expiration date than fresh foods, they do, in fact, have a limited shelf life. The concern is not so much food safety, but rather quality…
Hunger and famine are not easy to predict and can’t be prepared for.
Tools exist to monitor and predict trends in food production as well as food prices. For example, the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) analyzes meteorological and economic factors to alert…
Hunger is basically a health issue.
This issue also affects education and the economy. Hungry children struggle to focus, learn, or even attend school. Without education, it’s much harder for them to grow up and contribute to the…
People are only hungry during emergencies or disasters.
Emergencies only account for eight percent of the world’s hungry. There are close to one billion hungry people in the world who do not make the headlines and yet they go to…
There is nothing we can do to help hungry people.
There’s plenty we can do, even as individuals. Organizations like WFP need constant support and awareness-building efforts at the community level. You can help with that. Start where you are right now:…
Famine is chiefly caused by climate disasters
Though famines were once caused mainly by climate shocks such as drought, conflict is the single biggest driver of hunger today. The last officially declared famine was in South Sudan in 2017,…
Resolving hunger means ensuring people have enough to eat.
Hunger also involves the type of food you eat. Good nutrition means having the right combination of nutrients and calories needed for healthy development. It’s especially important for infants, pregnant women and…
There are more pressing global issues than hunger.
When populations are hungry, economies suffer, people fight, and farmers can’t grow their crops effectively. We need to tackle hunger to be able to resolve environmental, economic, and security issues.
Organic food is safer because it doesn’t touch pesticides
At the grocery store, consumers are given the option to buy conventionally-produced food or its (often pricier) organic counterpart. The distinction between these two choices is closely regulated. For food manufacturers to…
There is no point to carbon pricing if governments rebate the revenues
Rebates help with affordability, but they don’t change the incentive the price provides to pollute less. • Reducing pollution means saving money. The more you cut your emissions, the less carbon price…
