Abundant production coexists with mass hunger because unsold food is wasted.

Evidence

Enough food is produced daily to feed everyone on the planet, yet over 800 million people suffer from hunger. The problem of global hunger has actually worsened in recent years and in 2024 accounted for 45 percent of child deaths worldwide. In developed countries, food insecurity is growing. In the US alone, 13.5 percent of households were food insecure in 2023. However, about one-third of the food produced (1.3 billion tons, with an approximate value of $1 trillion) goes to waste every year because it remains unsold and is thrown away. That much food could feed three billion people. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 56

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘wasted food could feed three billion people’ figure is a punchy, shareable fact.
• XREF: connects to: Global food output exceeds need yet hunger coexists with massive waste. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 56; Famine outcomes are not merely determined by food scarcity. — David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The History and…, 921

Broader Connections

• Global food output exceeds need yet hunger coexists with massive waste. #corroborates (0.95) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 56
• Famine outcomes are not merely determined by food scarcity. #expands (0.80) — David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The History and…, 921