America is the only place I've ever heard of where the ability to haul a week of groceries at a time is a requirement.
I wonder how 6 billion other people manage to eat.
I wonder how 6 billion other people manage to eat.
https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/about-us/what-is-rural
"Micro area (urban core of 10,000-49,9999 people)"
I apparently live in a rural area, Helena, MT. The state capital by the way.
You can look up if you are the 20% Rural or 80% Urban here: https://data.hrsa.gov/tools/rural-health
I say all this because I walk to the grocery store and bike to work. In a rural area no less!
Especially when you account for the cost of time, it's way cheaper to make a grocery haul to walmart every couple weeks given we cannot just 'pop by the shop' for milk and eggs.
This is also, I believe, why processed food is so popular here. It's shelf stable for weeks at a time whereas fresh fruit and veg are much more perishable.
Four billion of the top six billion live relatively very poorly.
Out of the 7.88 billion, the bottom two billion live in such horrid conditions as to have no regular access to fresh drinking water, routine medical care or indoor toilets at home.
The majority of all people on the planet still don't have access to functional indoor toilets at home, or otherwise have sanitary toilets at home.
Nearly one billion people are still open deficating as a routine. Did you know 35-40% of Laos households have no toilets? Information provided by UNICEF.
I'm willing to bet the majority (not all) of people on HN are oblivious to the actual state of the rest of the world, specifically the bottom four to five billion or so, and just how poorly they live day to day.
So to the question, how do they manage to eat? Food insecurity is still a top concern for the bottom half of the world's population. Four billion people roughly. And for the bottom couple billion people, it's a severe day to day concern.
It's such a serious problem on an ongoing, constant basis that a single war between Ukraine and Russia, is enough to put the basic food security of billions of poor people at risk.
No, but how do they do that without a $50,000 SUV? /s
These are things many people need to do multiple times a year.