Marine Society and Food Shortages

Georgian England: Some 250 years ago, Georgian England was the richest society that had ever existed, and yet food shortages still afflicted large segments of the population, according to Market Watch. Adolescents sent to sea by the Marine Society to be officers’ servants were half a foot shorter than the sons of the gentry. From the dawn of agriculture until well into the Industrial Age, the common human condition was what nutritionists and public-health experts would describe as severe and damaging nutritional biomedical stress. A century of economic growth later, the working class in the United States was still spending 40 cents of every extra dollar earned on more calories. In the U.S., roughly 1% of the labor force is able to grow enough food to supply the entire population with sufficient calories and essential nutrients, which are transported and distributed by another 1% of the labor force. Today, food scarcity is no longer a problem, at least in high-income countries. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.