Millions of people around the world suffer from hunger and this problem is expected to worsen in the future. Studies show that by 2050 the amount of crops normally used for food production will double due to rapid population growth. This situation is very difficult because as the population increases, the number of people currently dying of hunger will also increase. Jonathan Foley published an article in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic explaining this situation by breaking down a system that will ultimately allow us to equitably feed our growing population. In “A Five-Step Plan to Feed the World,” the author successfully suggests several ways to solve the ongoing food shortage through the repeated use of different One aspect of the logos the author uses are statistics. Using statistics helps strengthen an argument considering that most people want information to be supported by numbers or survey results in order to believe it. Each step in this article describes the different ways humans have caused the destruction of the earth and how we could solve the problem to produce and save more food. The fourth step of this plan states that “only 55% of the calories from the world's crops directly feed people.” By providing this information, the reader will automatically wonder why all crops are not used for human consumption. This paragraph further explains how 36% of crops are used to feed livestock, along with the remaining 9% which is used for biofuels. With this information one can come to the conclusion that a greater portion of the crops grown on earth must be devoted to human consumption to reduce the large amount of hunger around the world. In addition to the fact that only 55% of crop calories feed the human population, the fifth step of this article states that 50% of harvested crops are often disposed of even before consumption. With this large amount of waste, it will be almost impossible to reduce hunger because increasing agricultural production to compensate for the excess food will only increase the amount of waste even more. From this it is evident that the author wants readers to realize how much human beings are wasting so that they want to adjust their