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Originally Posted by mapuc
^ Thank you Kapitan for your in-deep explanation
The next question to our resources is-How many of the population in percentage is eating more than needed ? -I know this is impossible to answer.
Markus
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Ahhh but it is not impossible, you can take an average (and researchers do often) but to answer that question you pose I can use my self and my own Diet.
So if I base it on my diet, I am going to whole heartedly say I do eat more than I need, I also waste a fair amount of food, and like many studies have shown I am average in that way.
When my Grandmother was alive she used to cook meals that were size proportion to around the 1940s mark, fast forward to today I will say the meal I eat now is in my estimate near double the size.
Am I being greedy ? yes I am I guess but that's because I don't have the mindset of save for a rainy day when it comes to food when I run out of something I know the store will have 20 different types of the item I want, and the worst bit about having that variety is a lot of that ends up in waste.
What I am trying to do now is sort of reverse that cycle and in some areas I have been successful, I have gone from 245lbs down to 200lbs roughly in the last two years this is because I buy in bulk and make it last and one meal makes 3 or 4 to be frozen.
To give you some idea I will buy on average 8kg of chicken in various cuts, roughly 40kg or Pork (its cheaper in Canada) I have 6kg of lamb and about 4kg of beef 1 Lobster 2kg of scallops, 2kg of Salmon and 2-3kg of various other fish (Haddock cod Halibut) in my freezer. right now
That's enough for me and the Mrs for 3 maybe 4 months, the Mrs will get each meat and package it into portions so we know exactly how many meals we can make out of each.
I do have frozen vegetables carrots peas green beans the main ones, but I also mix it with fresh produce Swede, Parsnips, Mushrooms etc, these I buy as needed.
I Do think though the biggest issue for humans is that especially in the west we love to eat out and expect massive portions and to not eat all of it.
Yet you go to some of the poorer parts of the world you will notice they cook just enough for the meal and that's it there's no scraps or left overs nothing.
With Sri Lanka moving to Organic farming as a whole nation numbering close to 22 million and having 1.37 million hectares (3.43 million acres) of farm land (45.5% of its total land mass) noting that organic crops don't yield as much produce as non organics I can honestly see this experiment being doomed to failure.
With Farmers needing to hit certain yield counts to break even if the Organic farming cannot produce the expected break even yields then is there any point in planting the crop for sale? Of course not there's no point or incentive to do so.
Sri Lanka produces Rubber tea cocoa coconut spices and rice with tea being its most common cash crop, with the yields on all being down I can understand why there is a food shortage and the economy tanked, you simply don't have enough produce to trade.
On top of that crops like rice are hugely labor and resource intensive, Rubber not so much unless they get infested with diseases, but Rubber is no good to you as a hungry person.