there is no worldwide foodshortage.
there are foodshortages in certain places.

Well then, no bread and water for you then, just beer and water while your in solitary confinement for a month

You'll be surprised by the amount of calories beer provides... If it were not for the need for other nutrients than just plain energy and the fact that acetaldehyde (the intermediairy step between alcohol and it's final breakdown product, acetic acid which is bound to coenzym-A to form acetyl-CoA which is used in the citric acid cycle to produce energy) is kind of... toxic, alcohol could be the basis for a great, energetic meal.

except arsenic has no positive function to the human body whatsoever, when alcohol does.

that is one faulty comparison.

*restarts the temperance movement based on that empirical evidence*

it's fairly easy to solve every world problem if you could choose to disregard all the bothersome factors.

like economical( nobody's gonna produce food for people who can't afford it)

personal gain( unfortunately and absurdly there actually is a market for lettuce)

transportation: kind of hard getting those tomatos to the desserttribe in time before they are rotten.

in terms: I know you started this as more of a gag and I agree with you about the satire this world has become.

but if all problems were so easy to fix....

I feel like the issue Flint is attempting to address is fundamentally different from the issues other people here are assuming he is attempting to address.

Flint clearly does not state that hunger doesn't exist... in fact, he specifically states that inefficiencies in distribution networks exist (he specifically mentioned dictators stealing food will impede local markets in solving the food shortages in the region).  Yet that's the way most people in this thread are addressing his post.

Rather, Flint is addressing the issue of a food shortage in the context of a Malthusian crisis, i.e., a global food shortage.  Given the need to increase the global efficiency of food supply and distribution, the world has the capacity to meet the demands of the current and future populations, not even considering future advances in food production as a result of new technology.

EDIT: Self Grammar Nazi'd

There is a food shortage, and it will worsen as a problem with the amount of soil erosion. For example, corn causes one of worst rates of soil depletion. However, corn is one of the most profitable crops, thanks to idiots who see a future in ethanol. So it's understandable why less scrupulous farmers are engaging in continuous corn production.

However, soil erosion and foot shortages don't have to be a problem. There are farming possibilities that would eliminate the growing problem of soil erosion and food shortages. However, those possibilities wouldn't be very profitable, and they would favor massive plantations due to economies of scale.

The comment by Zarf was right on.

Justinian I drive the whole of the Continental 48 States.

You would be surprised at the amount of potential farmland.

There is no shortage, nor will there be a shortage.

My comment was so right on that it needed to be doubly expressed! 

said anything about cutting trees down or about farming  mountains?

Oh I can give a crap if we top a hundred mountain peaks and fill ravines for more farmland...

Only it is not needed.

We do not need to turn yards into family farms, nor greenspace on corporate campuses into mini farms. We do not need to fill wetlands nor dike up new lands.

We do not even need a single acre of land honestly... but I will share that soon.

The land we caan use is appropriate for farming Federally owned lands.

But I did say we do not need more acres.

How about we end ethanol and the national cheese and dairy buyout programs (Where the cheese rots in warehouses to keep prices up...)

Oh and fixing logistics issues could add 5% as well.

Reducing wasteful practices could also add 10%....

There is no shortage of food, there is a shortage of desire to kick the corruption out of our Government...