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Food is a basic need. It's availability relies on two things.
- Environment: Soil, Topography, and Climate
- Economics/Politics: Pricing and Distribution

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Hunger: Getting some food but not enough for bodily functions.

Starvation: Receiving little to no food over a long period of time.

Malnutrition: Enough calories, but no variety. Usually leads to diseases.

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Working in the food/ beverage industry provides many opportunities, even in fast food. With that being said, being in such a high volume and public workforce can lead to unnoticed issues as well such as:

Employee Capacity: 1 of 7 people in the United States works in the food industry. This creates a highly competitive environment where even on the beginner levels you're competing with more than 10% of America for a job.

Industrial Pyramid: The majority of the estimated 20 million
food service jobs available are low-wage jobs. This means only a small percentage of those in the industry actually gain enough profit to thrive in the U.S. economy.

Identity & Safety: Due to the fact that the majority of the food industry has yet to be automated, humans are the main producers and distributors of food and beverage. So jobs like servers, deliverers, cooks, and even owners are all accessible to the public. Making it comparatively easier to harass, stalk, or abuse someone in the foodservice industry rather than in other industries where you'd only interact with peers and higher-ups.

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Injuries: Cuts, burns, muscle strains, or falls.

Low wage: The vast majority of the 21.5 million food chain jobs are low-wage.

The result is that food chain workers rely on public assistance programs for basic needs — including food — at a greater rate than workers in other industries.

No health benefits: Food service workers have some of the lowest rates of insurance, with national estimates ranging from 25 percent to 35 percent uninsured.

Dirty, unsanitary environment: Maintaining a clean work environment is critical in preventing foodborne illness. Bacteria can grow on unsanitary surfaces and then contaminate food.

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Living and working are both impossible without the proper diet. Luckily, in America food insecurity has been decreasing since 2011. However, 35% of households with income below the federal poverty line are food insecure. To provide perspective, as of 2020 37.2 million were considered to be in poverty. That's an estimated 13 million people who are recorded as food insecure.

The issue with food insecurity is that it goes unnoticed in most industries. This means that every day 1 in 10 workers will go to work with not enough resources to take care of themselves when they are home.

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Biggest Issues Within the Global Food System

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Biggest Issues Within the Global Food System

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1. Not Enough People Engaged in Agriculture

If we want to continue to eat, we’re going to have to get more people engaged in farming and we’re going to need to integrate agriculture into society.

2. Lack of equal access

Our food system is unjust because it does not provide healthy, affordable food to everyone.

A society that allows such a large percentage of its citizens to go hungry or rely on unhealthy foods that make them sick is shameful.

3. Exploitation of workers

The country’s lowest-paying jobs are fast food. Our food system crushes workers, ruins their health, and keeps them in poverty so that they need cheap, processed, industrialized
food to survive.

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Food Systems - Solutions to Ending Global Hunger

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Listen to this episode from Better Food. Better World. on Spotify. "Every act of eating involves some element of choice." Every day people around the world go to the store to purchase food and then sit down to a meal with their families.

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