Food Shortage Quotes
Often referred to as “Father of the Green Revolution” for his contributions to food growing throughout the world
In one of its most effective relief programs, the United States saved millions of Russians in the famine of 1921-1922. However, millions more starved to death and died of disease. The United States had at any one time 200 Americans, under Herbert Hoover, who were fighting to save as many as possible despite some on America wanting to show how the Communist Government was incapable of handling the situation, which they clearly were.
The president was right. There is enough food to go around. The problem however is logistical, economic, and political. Some countries use food as a weapon to keep their own people under control. The major problem is the distribution of the food. It has to be transported from where it is gown to where it should be consumed. Much food in the third world rots because the transportation system cannot move the food efficiently enough. Even when food is donated to nations, the free or cheap food undercuts the local farmers who go out of business and there is even less food the following year.
Vladimir Lenin. Uyezds were small towns and cities in an administrative subdivision of Russia. For Americans, hoarding has been a reprehensive policy for greed and personal gain, where the consequence for most people was inconvenience and loss of money. But in Russia hundreds of thousands of people starved to death while hoarders of food wanted to hold out for higher prices. To Lenin and many others, hoarding was mass murder and that was exactly its effect.
