UN Previously Published 'The Benefits of World Hunger' – Now Netherlands, US Have Potential Food Crisis

“For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? … For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.” —UN article

University of Hawaii Prof. George Kent wrote an article over a decade ago for the United Nations (UN) titled, “The Benefits of World Hunger.” Yes, you read that right. Apparently starvation can be good! The UN tried to claim just recently that the article was a satire, but Kent confirmed that it was not. Strange that this was uncovered just as nearly 100 food facilities were damaged or destroyed in the US and the Netherlands are sabotaging their own food production, forcing farmers to cut livestock drastically.

In fairness to the author, there seem to be sentences where he is presenting the wealthy’s dependence on hungry people as a bad thing.  But his premise that people’s productivity is dependent on their misery is false—as successful capitalism has demonstrated.

Hungry people may not be more productive, but they are more easily controlled. If the UN wants to achieve its 2030 Agenda, wouldn’t world hunger be a useful tool?