This is a sad plight, but encouraging your children to eat everything on their plate, will not help this cause, it will just encourage gluttony. And in fact, the video suggests that if there were no food wastage, the people in it would have no access to food. The more food we buy, the more food production increases, the more likely there will be excess food for the poor. I wish the world could stop being so divided by their borders. Some people have so much money that they can support many people for generations to come, and some can not even support themselves. I personally would support a law that skims a certain percentage of money off the top of high wage earners, and uses it to build proper economies for the underdeveloped countries, so that they no longer need to survive on charity. That we even allow billionaires to exist, seems ridiculous.
It is typical for the poor to have larger families. Although these children are a financial burden until age 5 or 6, once they have reached an age, they can start earning money for the family. In top of this, mortality rates are high, therefore the more children one has, the more chance there will be one that survives. There are no old age pensions in these countries, if you can no longer work, you will die if you do not have any children to support you.
This is a sad plight, but encouraging your children to eat everything on their plate, will not help this cause, it will just encourage gluttony. And in fact, the video suggests that if there were no food wastage, the people in it would have no access to food. The more food we buy, the more food production increases, the more likely there will be excess food for the poor. I wish the world could stop being so divided by their borders. Some people have so much money that they can support many people for generations to come, and some can not even support themselves. I personally would support a law that skims a certain percentage of money off the top of high wage earners, and uses it to build proper economies for the underdeveloped countries, so that they no longer need to survive on charity. That we even allow billionaires to exist, seems ridiculous.
It is typical for the poor to have larger families. Although these children are a financial burden until age 5 or 6, once they have reached an age, they can start earning money for the family. In top of this, mortality rates are high, therefore the more children one has, the more chance there will be one that survives. There are no old age pensions in these countries, if you can no longer work, you will die if you do not have any children to support you.