Why Do People Go Hungry?

Why do people go hungry? It’s not because we don’t produce enough food: we actually produce more than enough food to feed everyone in the world, many times over. But the system that governs the world – a system we call capitalism – lets billions starve while huge amounts go wasted, in order to maintain profits. The result is the hunger crisis that exists around us today – and leaves everyone worse off.

CREDITS:
Direction, Animation & Music - Tristan Whitehill
Sound Design - Ian Reilly
Music Supervision - David Maine
Narrator - Jensen Olaya
Writer - Jeanette Moreland & David Oks
Producer - Reid Hildebrand
Special Thanks - Mike & Whitney Gravel

[Mars-etvc]

Don’t forget nestle drains up peoples water supply then sells it back to them as bottled water. And not to mention their slaves

[juresichj]

It is amazing that this is what we have allowed our world to become. As a person who has gone dumpster diving to get food to feed her children, I really empathize with people who go hungry.

[talongodin]

I used to work in a grocery store. The amount of perfectly good food and other products that we dumped every day was absolutely appalling.

[Spiral.Dynamics]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success … in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[AnnaCurser]

in France, markets are obligated by law to donate everything they'd throw out and don't sell.

[monotoneyay]

I never knew that many people died of hunger - it feels so weird knowing this

[LogicGated]

It's always funny when people make the starvation under socialism meme but are blind to the starvation rampant today under capitalism.

[OrniKArnaud]

Nothing radicalizes some folks like working in food retail and seeing how much gets thrown away. An eye-opening experience.

[bigsalmon]

"if a man steals bread because he can't afford it, he shouldn't be imprisoned, the govt should" (sadly I don't remember who said this, but this statement has stuck with me)

[MYG]

I don't know how you can guard food to make sure it's thrown away instead of eaten by the homeless and starving and claim that to be the best system for feeding humanity.

[Zeusselll]

"Say whay you will about capitalism, at least it's efficient!"
Capitalism:

[danielwareking]

A lot of things crystalized for me when I realized that basic nutrition, housing, sanitation, and healthcare are human rights. Like, not in a philosophical, idealistic kind of way. No, in a literal, "THIS IS IN ARTICLE 25 OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, " kind of way.

Look it up.

[joshuahunt]

It’s impossible to escape these companies. They own pretty much all the smaller food companies as their subsidiaries. Buy local!

[teamakesgames]

"something we literally need to exist"
Ah yes, make housing and healthcare free too.

Uhm.. unironically. Please do

[raybellows]

Remember that the military budget in the US was just increased by 20 billion dollars. Enough money to end homelessness in the US.

[ernststravoblofeld]

If it's at all possible for you, grow your own food. Even just a little of it. It's damn near free. A few seeds in a window box. A grow light over a bucket in the corner of your apartment. Anything.

[ЯрославКовальчук-иь]

Because it doesn't matter how much we produce - just how we distribute

[JohnCollinsIsAWizard]

"A century ago, scarcity had to be endured; today, it must be enforced"

[brentt]

The ad at the start of Video was longer than the video itself and tried to explain how "corporations not paying taxes is good, actually" 😂

[natethebluesman]

"The most affluent and the most miserable of the human race are to be found in the countries that are called civilized" -Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice, page 9, paragraph 4