Food security

In general, food security is having access to food in order to meet your recommended daily caloric intake. It is clear that world hunger is a result of food insecurity as opposed to a shortage of food.  God has provided us with adequate resources, we just have an unfair distribution system. There is plenty of food in the world, it's just some people can't buy it. This is often due to the political or economic structure in a country, hence food prices are often out of reach for a significant portion of the population. The globalization of the food production system is largely to blame. Countries often specialize in cash crops which means that instead of feeding its people, food has to be imported.

This globalization has created the need for high yield crops, meaning more food needs to be produced per acre.  Enter technology. Machines, fertilizer, extensive irrigation, and patented seeds. The Green Revolution probably was the first of this kind of technology, now we speak of GMOs, and in the US (as opposed to Europe) food is not labeled as such.

At our cookie booth yesterday we asked a woman if she wanted to "buy a box of Girl Scout cookies," she said she would but now that she knew about GMOs, she realized the cookies weren't safe because most of the corn and soy that's produced has been genetically modified.  Absolutely, and most of that is fed to cattle or finds its way into packaged goods. I spoke with her for a moment and for some reason she was shocked that I understood the food production system (perhaps it was my outfit).

The reason that most people don't have an inkling about the source of their food is because the supermarket separates us from food production. No longer do we need to be connected to the land when we can simply walk in a market and get everything that we need. So in many ways we are food insecure because we don't have access to information about food, we simply eat, which by the way is one reason why some counties refuse food aid because they'd rather be hungry than eat what some refer to ask Frankenfood.

The thing that's puzzling is, why someone who appeared hyperconcerned about GMOs would even step foot in a chain supermarket.