>> That is: if Americans ate less, would the 2B number go
>> up or down?
>
> It's related to the fact that we use far too much of the
> world's resources - oil, clean air, food, you name it.
So you're saying the reason (or at least one of them, in some significant way) that 2B people don't have enough food is because Americans are eating it instead? Because I was under the impression that "hunger" is not a technicality: it's a policy.
If Americans ate less, Kraft and ConAgra would cut back production.
Americans are piggy, but let's not start handing out individual blame for world hunger. Stay focussed.
/jordan