How'll the smart minds build a product or mechanism to solve for this problem and what'll be the business model that sustains them to pay office rent & salaries?
There are soup kitchens and food drives and all manners of donations to feed the poor and hungry.
Religious communities play a big role in this.
How can hunger be properly defined?
Is it the same between any two people, a population, all of humanity? How do you measure?
Does consuming a bag of chips satisfy hunger?
Am I being too pedantic?
Perhaps the money and food isn't getting to the right people properly ... perhaps very inefficiently with significant added cost?
The other side of this is to look at how much food a typical American wastes. Portions are too big, food is becoming more and more "affordable," and large amounts of it get thrown away.
Is food waste all that bad in the context that it decomposes and returns into the earth, returning its nutrients, despite not feeding someone?
<aside> The other day I was making a salad and wanted to experiment with flavors by adding some apple to my creation. I used a peeler to remove and discard the skin and then shaved some of the fruit directly into the salad. I eventually decided there was plenty of apple in my salad and any more would make it too sour.
So, I tossed the fruit, noticing that probably 2/3 of it remained.
I stopped to think about this.
I also got to thinking about how the top-rated, "gastronomic" restaurants must be throwing out plenty of fruits and veggies without using them entirely.
Perhaps it's seen to be an insignificant cost to them due to item menu price and overall expected margin, but rather a far greater perceived benefit of using _fresher_ ingredients with every meal that's prepared?
Society has started eating for taste, not for just energy / calories, and this probably contributes to even more food waste.
>What'll be the business model?
Instead of being a business, why not eradicate the problem completely? Unfortunately we as a society are obsessed with "treating" problems rather than "curing." Why are there not rewards or payouts to solve social problems like these?
>What'll be the business model?
Great question. I think the government could easily reward people/corporations for helping out since they primarily make most of their money off people wanting to live in an area.(Another discussion could be had on that)
I think there has to be an incentive.
> ..food is becoming more and more "affordable,"
Is it though? What type of food has become more affordable? Last I checked, healthier food is still more expensive.
