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Dionys1 year, 8 months ago
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"It's not becoming harder to feed everyone, it's becoming easier to scare people, manipulate shortages, and fix prices."
Garbage. People are starving around the world and you're claiming it's not becoming harder to feed everyone. People are starving here in the US, too. If it's so easy to feed everyone why is *anyone* hungry.
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Grrr1 year, 8 months ago
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First, this story is about the US, and that is what my comment referred to.
Second, like I said, because there is more profit in NOT feeding everyone. Or less profit in seeing that everyone is fed. Doesn't really matter how you state it.
And third, it really is not becoming harder to feed everyone. Do you really think that we didn't know there would be shortages early enough to simply have more farmers plant more short season grains? Do you really think that the science of agriculture is not up to the task of increasing the world food supply, say, threefold in a single season if it were desired? Of course it is.
People have been starving around the world for FOREVER. This is not a new thing. We could have been feeding them all with the acres we've paid to leave fallow for the last several decades, way before population explosions, economic BOOMS in asia, and biofuels.
But millions still starved. 'Splain, Lucy.
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bill29361 year, 8 months ago
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Why are people hungry, because they choose to be. A few years ago I did a little experiment just to see how hard it was to get a meal. I spent one month in the summer paid $0 for food and ate 3 meals a day. Typically the Salvation Army handled one or two meals a day. There was another religious organization, that had a breakfast program for the homeless. I may have had to listen to a sermon or wash a few dishes, but I ate and no begging or 'dumpster diving'. I got the idea from another program they have in Texas where kids (under 18) can show up at various locations and get breakfast and lunch for free during the summer. There were those that complained about the program because they would not delivery to the kids houses.
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simonsez1 year, 8 months ago
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simonsez1 year, 8 months ago
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Yes and crack for food and lottery tickets for food and twinkies for food and chips for food and pig skins for food, etc.
I've heard of all those but I don't know anyone who ever had to make that choice. I see them in the food court carrying Nike boxes and their pants around their knees eating a slice of pizza.
Maybe you know some ...
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walden31 year, 8 months ago
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You said you see "them." Who is them and how do you know just by looking at "them" that they spend money on crack and lottery tickets?
It sounds like you may have an aversion to the urban style of dress that kids are doing now. It's just how kids dress these day.
Personally, I'd rather wrongly have someone buy crack then have some kid go hungry. No doubt there are many people taking advantage.
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simonsez1 year, 8 months ago
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I'm not little or bitter. There are many many many ways to get a meal in this country if you need one.
States spend a lot more buying food for kids than they spend for books. Send your kids to school where they belong and they will be fed.
I may be a troll ...
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