USA - Food shortages can happen almost INSTANTLY in America, which has become dangerously dependent on complex logistics and fragile supply lines. Worldwide, famine was responsible for around one million deaths each year in the century between the late 1880s and the end of the 1980s. Now, many of us may mistakenly believe that humanitarian policies and better infrastructure mean that this type of famine is a thing of the past.
While it is true that the death rate from starvation has been far lower in recent years – between 5 and 10 percent of what it once was – the combination of poor environmental policies, bad government, wars, and a complicated and delicately balanced network of global food supply chains means that mankind could once again be teetering on the brink of large-scale famine and starvation.
Even with these supply chains intact, the residents of the United States are by no means immune to hunger. According to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization, although the US is one of the globe’s biggest food exporters, around 12 percent of American households are labeled “food insecure,” with over 6.5 million children going hungry every day.