Is there enough food grown to feed everyone on the planet?

Answer 1

Yes.. for know there is.. but there is going to be more people who are going to come to earth so maybe in a couple of years there will not be as much reasores...
Yes, the world produces enough food for everyone. But over 800 million people remain chronically hungry

Source: Bread for the World Institute, Agriculture in the Global Economy 2003, p2 - FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2003
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm
Plenty tenfold. We just need to find a way of getting the extra food to those who are starving. We're wasting so much food here in the west.

Of all the food that is grown:

• 33% is used to feed animals
• 33% is wasted (Americans throw out almost half of what they buy!)
• 5% is used for biofuel
• The remaining 28% feeds humans.

About one billion of the world's 7 billion people are hungry every day.
It would not be difficult to make sure there is enough food to go round, but because a fairly large amount of humans are greedy or don't bother trying to ensure that there is enough food, many people go without and starve to death, especially in LEDCs and poorer countries.

Answer 2

Yes, but only if people stop eating animal flesh and secretions.

According to the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, it takes up to 10 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat, and in the United States alone, 56 million acres of land are used to grow feed for animals, while only 4 million acres are producing food for humans to eat.

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, (quoting the National Corn Growers Association), about 80% of all corn grown in the U.S. is consumed by farmed animals. Humans consume only about 12% of the U.S. corn crop. Quoting the United Soybean Board, the EPA tells us that over 30 million tons of soybean meal are consumed as livestock feed in a year. Worldwide, approximately 75% of soybeansare used for animal feed. Imagine how many more people could be fed with all that food!

Of the world’s more than seven billion people, more than 840 million are suffering from chronic hunger. One person dies of hunger every ten seconds, most of them children. That’s 3,1536,000 people who die of hunger every year.

EarthSave, quoting a 1994 study, states that 10 billion people could be sustained from present croplands if everyone ate a plant-based diet.