Yes, let’s talk about hunger!

Abstract

Hunger is one of the manifestations of food and nutritional insecurity, an expression of the social issue arising from social inequality triggered by the capitalist mode of production, possessing a logic of capital valorization that subordinates the use value to the exchange value, thus establishing a meaningless way of life, as one works for the generation of profit and not for their real human needs. Based on this assumption, this article analyzes how this valorization process affects Food and
Nutrition Security, due to the aspects of: production and distribution of commodities; food costs; socioeconomic conditions; and cultural issues. The results show that this logic of valorization affects the production, distribution and consumption of
food products, inflicting consequences on the availability of products, nutritional composition, sanitary quality, consumption patterns, purchasing capacity, food preferences and the sustainable use of natural resources.