It's causing food inequality!
How dare they not be one embargo away from starvation? The USA has the god-given right to starve any population on earth, taking that away is tantamount to aggression!
China taking precautions to avoid another famine (an issue that they know very well from the past) is evil actually
If communist countries start preparing for famines how is the west going to blame another holodomor on them
So the economist agrees that a small percentage of people shouldn't hold a disproportionately large amount of resources?
No, you see, the asiatic brain pan is not fit for proper resource hoarding...
No, you see, Communists are being hypocritical if they have even one more calorie than they need.
Capitalist countries, however, are living up to their own ideals by hoarding and destroying 30% of their food supplies for profit.
If you want it so badly then buy it from them, capitalists :stalin-garrison:
i like how people keep talking about the shanghai shortage as a gotcha too
china so much food but also too silly to eat it. have a friend over there that said it was fixed in his area in 3 days, which is a long time tbh, but media is STILL talking about it
Yeah but do they have the marvel cinematic universe? No thanks, I'd rather my movie slop over your "food" (healthy shit).
They can have it, the West has a food they can't take and fits more into their culture: Microplastics.
defiantly not just throwing around misleading statistic. Who would have guessed an Asian country has a lot rice, it not like it would be there main crop or any thing.
NOO U NEED TO LET US THROW THAT FOOD IN A LOCKED DUMPSTER BEHIND WALMART
The US released Oil it stocked up to lower the oil price but doesn't have enough food reserves to weather any shocks to the supply of a more essential good?
Of course not. If you stockpile food, that'll devalue it so the farmer's can't make a profit. When there's too much food (or it's predicted that the food won't be profitable enough), the US simply pays to have it destroyed.
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
This passage is almost 100 years old and so little has changed :sadness-abysmal:
How it started: Communism no food
How it's going: Communism too much food
Alternate: Communism is when food, but at what cost?
