Hunger is an issue that unites the world from highly developed to vastly underdeveloped countries. The universal need for food integrated with poverty problems and environmental barriers calls for worldwide communication. The struggle lies within the techniques that powerful countries are using in food production that leave an impact on not only their own citizens, but the citizens of the entire world. Feeding the constantly growing global population requires fast production of crops, and in order to do this, farmers are modifying farming in ways that are draining the Earth of it’s resources. These processes, while rapidly producing food, at a cheap cost, are condemning the human race to a shorter lifespan because of their environmental impacts. The industrial techniques used by powerful countries are affecting countries that are not powerful enough to influence them to change their ways. Similarly, it is ironic that feeding the world using fossil fuels will eventually lead to starvation when resources are drained to the point where they cannot aid in food production.
Although there are negatives to reducing the use of fossil fuels in farming, such as higher costs, the biggest negative would come from not limiting this use. In the United States, there is an issue of obesity. Not only does the industrialization of food make crops less nutritious with the addition of genetic modification and chemicals, but the cost of food made organically and edible produce rises because only the industrialized food is los in cost. The value of food has reduced so much that the least expensive food to buy is the most altered such as bags of chips, cheap hamburgers and other fast food. This phenomenon contributes to the rapid spread of obesity. The wage gap is a main contributor to this problem because the majority of the population in America does not have an abundance of money to place towards food. This relates back to the trend that the most powerful organizations are creating the rules and the less powerful are forced to endure the economic and environmental consequences.