Hunger is Man-Made - Part 1: How Inequality Fabricates Scarcity
Hunger is Man-Made: The Political Economy of Food Scarcity 1 Hunger is Man-Made - Part 1: How Inequality Fabricates Scarcity 2 Hunger is Man-Made - Part 2: Engineered Vulnerability: When Famine Becomes an Act of History 3 Hunger is Man-Made - Part 3: The Green Trap: How Modernization Concentrated Land and Poverty 4 Hunger is Man-Made - Part 4: The Global Supermarket: Corporate Control, Debt, and the Toxic Gift of Aid ← Series Home Key Takeaways 500+ million people face hunger despite global abundance: This crisis unfolds not from food scarcity, but from concentrated control over production resources. Scarcity is an illusion created by inequality: Sharp disparities in controlling food resources obstruct development and distort utilization. Whoever controls bread controls the mind: Control of essential resources determines who eats and who starves, enabling the exploitation of populations. Hunger stems from human systems, not nature: Malthus was wrong—the problem is dependency and underdevelopment, not limits to growth. Demystifying hunger is the first step to change: Understanding the structures that manufacture scarcity is essential for implementing genuine solutions. Post 1: Hunger is Man-Made - Part 1: How Inequality Fabricates Scarcity The book, The Hunger Industry, challenges readers to rethink deeply held assumptions about food and subsistence. Readers will confront ideas previously accepted as settled facts. This work compels mental alertness, anxiety, and a departure from intellectual routine. It deals with the most crucial human issue: securing daily bread. The authors emphasize that “without bread, man does not live” and whoever controls the bread controls the mind. ...