FOOD SHORTAGES
(See also Famine; Hunger; Last Days; Population; Signs; Spiritual Famine)
(Note centered headings below: List by Place; Quotations)
breast-feeding helps relieve: g74 7/8 13
causes: w85 11/15 10; g85 1/8 12-13; g85 5/22 4-8; w83 2/15 27; g80 8/22 5-6; g78 2/8 5-7; g77 6/22 31; w75 195-196; w75 248; g75 1/22 29; g75 6/8 31; g75 6/22 29; w74 196-197; g74 7/22 3-7; g74 10/8 5-6; g74 11/8 29-30; tp73 13-15; g73 6/22 6-11; g72 12/22 8-11; g67 5/8 10-11; g67 9/8 12-15; w65 243; g65 6/8 29; g64 4/8 30; g63 7/22 31; g60 6/8 13-16; g58 4/8 16; g56 2/8 4; g54 9/22 3; g51 5/8 7; g51 9/8 14-15; g48 8/8 20-24; g47 5/22 7; g46 7/31 15; py 18-31
unequal distribution: g79 4/8 6; g78 2/8 31; g77 3/8 31; g74 12/8 8-9
Christian view: w75 634; g75 2/22 8, 11; w74 40; w74 248-249
coping with: g74 9/22 3-7
deaths from:
daily average: g77 1/8 23
difference in today’s crisis: g85 1/8 13; g75 2/8 7
discussion: g85 1/8 12-13; g80 8/22 5-11; g78 2/8 4-7; w76 195-196; w75 195-196; g75 2/22 7-11; g73 10/8 4-7, 21
effects of: g85 5/22 3, 5; g75 2/22 10-11
ethics of nations: w75 261; g75 1/22 29; g75 5/8 29
farmers’ problems: g75 6/22 9-13
first century C.E.: w70 45
fish: g74 2/22 23-24; g73 7/22 29
grain: g78 2/8 31; g74 5/22 29; g74 6/8 31; g74 6/22 6; g74 11/22 29
hoarding: g74 6/22 5, 29; g74 10/8 29
meat: g73 7/22 29
beef: g72 10/8 30
nations stockpiling: g85 5/22 8; g74 1/22 6
old people: g75 5/8 30
predictions for future: g85 5/22 8-10; tr 88-89; g77 3/8 31; w76 300; g75 2/8 30; g75 3/8 4; g75 3/22 29; g75 4/8 30; w74 195-196; w74 243; g74 2/8 29; g74 4/8 29; g74 5/8 29; g74 6/22 5-6, 29; g74 7/22 3-7, 30; g74 10/22 29; g74 11/8 10, 29; g74 11/22 29; tp73 13-14, 82; g73 6/22 5-6, 16-17; g73 9/22 29; g73 10/8 5-6; g73 11/8 29; g72 7/22 3, 10-12; g71 10/8 7, 28, 30; w70 270; g70 1/22 6; w69 70; is 125; g69 1/22 15; w68 227; g68 2/8 31; g68 7/22 30; g68 9/22 29; g68 10/8 15; g67 9/8 7-8, 29; g67 9/22 29; g66 6/22 31; g66 8/22 29
relief programs: g85 5/22 7-8
religion: g73 6/22 8-9
sign of last days: ce 224; g85 1/8 12-13; w84 12/15 25; g84 10/22 6; w83 5/15 23-24; w82 5/15 14-15; kc 122-123; g81 1/8 11; w80 10/15 10; hp 145, 149; g80 8/22 11; w78 10/1 17; g78 2/8 4-7
solution: g85 5/22 10; w75 196; ts 135-137; g73 6/22 13; g72 7/22 12-13; g67 5/8 11; g67 9/8 16-19; g63 3/8 11
statistics: g85 5/22 3; kc 122-123; g81 1/8 11; g81 11/22 29; w80 10/15 16; g80 2/8 23; g79 6/8 29-30; g77 3/8 31; ml 23; w74 295; g74 7/22 3-4, 6; g73 6/22 4-5; g73 7/22 29; g72 7/22 11; g71 10/8 7, 17; g70 1/22 6; is 125; g69 2/8 30; g69 10/8 20; g68 3/8 13; g68 10/8 9; w67 262; g67 1/22 29; g67 4/8 30; g67 8/22 6; g67 9/8 9; w66 40; g66 2/22 30; g66 3/22 29; g66 6/8 30; g66 10/8 18, 30; g66 11/22 29; g66 12/22 29; w65 236-238; g64 4/8 30; g64 8/22 30; g64 11/8 30; g63 3/8 11; g63 5/8 29; g63 6/8 9; w62 132; g62 3/8 11; g62 11/8 29; w61 627; g61 2/22 7; g61 6/22 31; g61 7/8 30; g60 5/22 19; pa 181-182; g58 4/8 16; w56 614; g56 2/8 3; g54 4/22 31; g54 9/22 3; g51 5/8 5-6; w50 398; g47 5/22 3-7; g46 1/30 11-12; g46 7/31 14-15; g43 3/17 23; g34 10/24 40-48
number of earth’s inhabitants not having enough food: g84 12/22 6; w82 10/15 3; w76 195
number of people suffering from threat of famine: g84 10/22 6
symbolic representation: w78 10/1 17; w74 358; fm 52-53; is 124; w65 148-149; w62 151; pa 182; g47 5/22 3; ki 335; w42 150; lt-1-30 75-76
technology fails to solve: w74 40; w74 197; g73 6/22 7, 10
United States’ role: g74 7/8 29; g74 7/22 4-5
UN reports on world hunger: g85 5/22 3; g78 3/8 29
FAO: g85 5/22 5
UNICEF: g80 4/8 29
World Food Council: g85 5/22 3; g78 2/8 4-7
weather’s effect: g75 3/8 3-4
List by Place
Afghanistan: g73 2/8 29; g73 6/22 4
Africa: g85 5/22 3, 5-7; g85 11/8 29; w83 8/15 11; g83 1/22 16; g83 5/22 30; g83 10/8 29-30; g75 2/22 11; g74 3/8 5-8; g74 7/22 4, 6; g73 6/22 4-5; g73 10/8 6
Bangladesh: g75 2/22 9
Brazil: g70 7/22 29
China: w84 12/15 25; g62 2/8 29; g61 6/22 31
Ghana: g85 5/22 7
India: g75 2/22 9-11; g74 7/22 7; g73 6/22 3-4, 7-9; g73 9/22 29; g73 10/8 7; w72 615; g72 7/22 3; w68 35; ev 165; g67 5/8 9-11; g67 8/8 30; g67 9/8 8-9; g67 9/22 29; g67 12/8 31; g66 6/22 31; g66 7/8 29; g65 10/8 30
Iraq: g75 2/22 9
Ireland: g72 7/22 6
Nigeria: g75 2/22 9
Somalia: g76 1/8 30
Soviet Union: g73 10/8 6
Thailand: g78 12/22 30
Third World nations: g81 3/22 29
Tunisia: g65 2/22 29
world:
future prospects: g85 5/22 8-10
Quotations
500 million starving in less developed lands: g74 7/22 5
already enough grain grown globally to feed everyone on earth: w83 2/15 27
a permanent crisis threatening hundreds of millions: w75 195
as many as 400 million live constantly on the brink of starvation: g81 1/8 11
by 1985 worldwide famines: tp73 14
climate change indicates major crop failures: g75 3/8 4
doubtful whether critical food situation ever so world wide: g75 2/8 7
drastic rise in the death rate through starvation: w72 615
earth could feed three times population: g56 2/8 4
enough resources to provide for everybody: w60 164
famine will happen no matter what: g67 9/8 29
food crisis a ‘can’t win’ dilemma: g75 2/8 30
food will become political weapon: g74 10/22 29
geography of hunger is worldwide: g62 3/8 11
glut and limitation of production in the midst of world hunger: g63 5/8 29
governments today have no policy such as Joseph taught Pharaoh: w75 196
Great World Famine has begun: g67 9/8 7
half of world’s population suffer from malnutrition: g67 8/22 6; w66 40; w65 238
half the human family desperately short: g72 10/22 15
hunger problem today is vastly different from that of the past: g85 1/8 13
hungry multiplying twice as fast as well fed: tp73 13
in 1973 close to having 50-60 million die: g74 7/22 5
indefinite, if not permanent, shortages: g74 7/22 5
means to produce much more is at hand, but no one sure how to get it to [needy]: g85 5/22 10
millions on brink of starvation: g74 9/22 3
millions starve to death: pa 181
never in history so much undernourishment: g62 12/8 29
new era of short supplies, hungry people: g74 7/22 4
nothing less than a wholesale reordering of social and economic priorities will reduce hunger: g85 5/22 7
nothing seems more solvable—[yet] more intractable—than hunger: g85 5/22 9
there is enough food for all the world’s five billion persons: g85 5/22 4
there is no worldwide shortage of food in terms of quantity or quality: g79 4/8 6
things much worse than when we wrote Famine—1975!: g75 2/22 29
two thirds of world hungry: pa 181; g56 2/8 3; g56 3/8 7; g54 4/8 11
undernourished as before World War II: g74 11/8 29
world food situation remains fragile: g78 3/8 29
world grain supplies expected to decline: g74 7/22 6
world is running out of food: g67 9/8 10