Just a Thought...

According to the Malthusian Theory, there are two types of "checks" that play a role in guiding population growth. First there are the preventative checks which monitor the rate of population through "moral restraint". Examples include birth control, restriction from marriage at an early age, and having smaller families). Second there are positive checks which monitor population rates through shortening human life spans. Examples include war, famine, disease, and genocide. Today in 2015, the world inhabits around 7 billion people. Now, that's a lot of people when you take into account the capacity the earth is able to provide for us 7 billion people. One of the biggest pressures we put on the world is extraction of food. Malthus even said that a species can only survive if it avoids over harvesting its food source. With the population and food demand so high, corporations turned to science to solve our problems (because it always works out so well). One main "issue" trying to be solved is having the ability for plants to withstand destructive elements (like bugs or weather) so the food can grow no matter the surrounding environment. Chemicals and pesticides have been huge contributors to growing higher amounts of food. Some say it's harmless to ingest chemicals with the sole purpose to kill other organisms and others aren't so convinced. The black and white facts are, no matter how deep you get in this topic or which side you stand on, billions of people today are sick and one of the most well known ways to prevent yourself from getting sick is "eating right". Obviously the term "eating right" means eating a well balanced diet which fulfills your nutrient requirements, but could it also mean eating food that isn't groomed with chemicals and literal bug poison from the time of planting to harvesting? In my opinion... OBVIOUSLY! And with the amount of food that uses unnatural pesticides through the developmental process of that food, it's safe to say billions of people consume toxic chemicals regularly. In addition, with those big name corporations that provide our lovely chemically enriched food (and most of our food in general) not wanting to share with the public which foods are grown with or without chemicals, or the reports of the effects those toxins do to the human body, it's hard to place good judgement on what to buy/eat. It's one thing to raise food with harmful toxins, it's another thing to hide the effects of what consuming that food will do. So am I safe to say that the food industry today is actually an intentional huge positive check influencing our population? Our population is so big that we have resorted to secretly killing off as many people as possible without their awareness simply from what they had on their plates? Around 2.8 million adults die every year due to obesity (EASO.org). About 3.1 million children die every year due to malnutrition and starvation (stophungerno.org). Around 14 million people are diagnosed with cancer and about 8 million die from the disease a year (cdc.gov)(Of course not all cancer is food related). Food used to be the source of nutrition, energy, and growth and now it's slowly killing as many people as possible. What once was a necessity to sustain our life in a healthy manner, is now a solid staircase to millions of death globally. How do we fix food "checking" or population by killing us off? Would it be a more efficient world if what we ate didn't contain harmful toxins and didn't add to our already long list of disease? Or am I just imagining all of this...