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re: Why is there starvation in the world when we produce more than enough food?
Posted on 11/30/14 at 8:30 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 11/30/14 at 8:30 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
To keep the population in check
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Posted on 11/30/14 at 8:37 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Famine can generally be blamed on politics
Posted on 11/30/14 at 8:40 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Sally Struthers eats all the donated food.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 8:46 am to boddagetta
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Sally Struthers eats all the donated food.
Don't forget Rosey.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 8:52 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Why is there starvation in the world when we produce more than enough food?
Politics.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 9:38 am to Bullfrog
Geopolitics doesn't make it easy but I've always gotten a kick out of the fact
that we grow a ton of crops here for the sole purpose of burning them in our automobiles.
that we grow a ton of crops here for the sole purpose of burning them in our automobiles.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 9:44 am to SM6
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that we grow a ton of crops here for the sole purpose of burning them in our automobiles.
This x 1000.
We could cut world hunger by as much as 50% if we stopped wasting food that way, but the ethanol industry is now an entrenched special interest with billions of dollars at stake.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 10:06 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Governments starve and steal from their people. Hell we have sent hundreds of billions to starved African countries for over a decade and they are no better off
Posted on 11/30/14 at 10:11 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Because we are our own country. We shouldn't be worried about others except for who we export to and import from
Posted on 11/30/14 at 11:07 am to kywildcatfanone
who cares......so what.......
Posted on 11/30/14 at 11:09 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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yet we still see mass starvation
i mean "mass" is relative. there isn't that much starvation, and there is less starvation today than ever before in human history
and if you want to know why, i'd imagine "authoritarian regimes stealing the food" covers just about every area with starvation
Posted on 11/30/14 at 11:14 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Warlords horde it and prevent it from getting to the people. They maintain power this way. That's one big reason. We can't fix everything, everywhere. That's why we should focus domestically and we should emphasize how lucky we are to live here. Our poor would be considered wealthy in many parts of the world. Our poorest poor are only in their situation by choice or mental illness.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 11:16 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Starvation in the modern world is a result of only one thing - politics. Usually the leaders who control that population are using starvation as a weapon.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 11:19 am to Bestbank Tiger
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We could cut world hunger by as much as 50% if we stopped wasting food that way, but the ethanol industry is now an entrenched special interest with billions of dollars at stake.
No we couldn't. Despite our best intentions, the shite heads running these places won't let it happen. And pussified "activists" here definitely don't want us to use force to save lives. Not that it would help in the long run anyway.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 1:55 pm to SM6
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I've always gotten a kick out of the fact
that we grow a ton of crops here for the sole purpose of burning them in our automobiles.
When did your "kick" start? We were producing well over what we can use long before we started screwing up our gasoline with that ethanol crap.
The first production units for ethanol for fuel purposes was during the Carter admin. to the best of my knowledge. Most of those were gov't subsidized and most of them were shutdown due to a drop in oil prices and more available oil. The facilities that are online now are somewhat new.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 2:00 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
MOVE OUT OF THE frickING DESERT
GO TO WHERE THE FOOD IS
GO TO WHERE THE FOOD IS
Posted on 11/30/14 at 2:03 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Darwin had a good theory.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 2:05 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
It's probably for the best that people who can't figure out a way to feed themselves find their way out of the gene pool.
Posted on 11/30/14 at 2:08 pm to Rouge
You beat me to it Rouge. First thing I thought of when I saw this thread.
RIP Sam
RIP Sam
Posted on 11/30/14 at 2:12 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
If people are hungry they should get a job so they can buy food
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