Jarell Hanz M.

Damian Class Code: CFE 103 1614

M4U3
Missionary response/Evaluate

In the past ten years the world population exceeded six billion people with most of
the growth occurring in the poorest, least developed countries in the world. The rapidly
increasing population and the quickly declining amount of land are relative and the rate at
which hunger is increasing rises with each passing year. We cannot afford to continue to
expand our world population at such an alarming rate, for already we are suffering the
consequences. Hunger has been a problem for our world for thousands of years. But now
that we have the technology and knowledge to stamp it out, time is running short. Many
people don’t realize that hunger and malnutrition is a problem that many people face on a
daily basis. Perhaps, we have overlooked the obvious failing to realize that our country is
not perfect and is subject to "third-world" problems such as starvation. “It is morally
reprehensible that we live in the wealthiest nation in the world where one in six people
are struggling to make choices between food and other basic necessities”.

Simply put, food waste will never be able to address hunger because hunger isn't about a
lack of food. It's about a lack of income. People are food insecure because they can't
afford to eat. Food waste diversion strategies aimed at the poor don't fix the food waste
problem either. Food waste has become a moral issue in my household. An ardent
recycler, my wife admirably seeks ways to reduce the amount of trash our family
generates. When I get lazy and toss some food scrap into the garbage can, rather than the
green waste bin, she dutifully pulls it out and puts it in the right place.

Resource scarcity is defined as a situation where demand for a natural resource is

exceeding the supply leading to a decline in available resources. Scarcity can involve
non-renewable resources, such as oil, precious metals and helium. Scarcity refers to
resources being finite and limited. Scarcity means we have to decide how and what to
produce from these limited resources. It means there is a constant opportunity cost
involved in making economic decisions. Scarcity is one of the fundamental issues in
economics.
One solution to dealing with scarcity is to implement quotas on how much people
can buy. An example of this is the rationing system that occurred in the Second World
War. Because there was a scarcity of food, the government had strict limits on how much
people could get. This was to ensure that even people with low incomes had access to
food a basic necessity. A problem of quotas is that it can lead to a black market; for some
goods, people are willing to pay high amounts to get extra food. Therefore, it can be
difficult to police a rationing system.