POV+-+Food+Deprivation

=Food Deprivation=

In this rice unit I have learned a lot of things I did not know before.

Some of the things I’ve learned made me feel depressed, because I learned that our population growth is getting higher and higher, but our amount of resources are getting lower and lower. So I’m basically saying that our population is higher then the amount of natural resources. And here comes that sad part, the poor people are getting less because the price is getting higher and the rich people are taking advantage over having a lot of money. So it all ends up with the poor people having nothing and the rich people having too much.

And if you think about all this, what is happening to the farmer, well the farmer is not able to grow all the rice he needs to sell on the markets or to other people, and he does not have enough to feed his own family. And with all this happening, where are they supposed to get their food, well there is no where else to buy rice, so the wealthy people get more than the poor.

In many places the farmers exchange rice for other foods or items. This has been a tradition for hundreds of years. When they have less rice they will get much less of other foods or items. Also when the rice becomes more expensive the farmers can not trade rice for their needs like this any more, unless they find a way to get back all their rice and then they can start again. They can also ask a friend for help, but it will be hard, because their friend also needs the rice too.

What I think of the future is the more people will be worried because when they were young like me, about in this year they were learning about these issue that we need to change in life. I hope there will be more people trying to help with these things, and things might get better.