• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The IPC, (the people responsible for tracking and declaring famines), have released a report saying this is going to get very bad very quickly if aid isn’t allowed in.

    This is entirely avoidable and creating a famine is not in anyone’s textbook of legitimate military strategies.

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      These animal farmers are making famines worse by driving up demand for cropland and input allocation towards feed crops. The more money is shoved into the animal farming industry, the more famine there will be in the world.

      edit: if you feed food to food, you’re wasting food. This isn’t some obscure fact. The free market on inputs and even on land allocates the resources to who pays more - and subsidies allow the animal industry to pay more, to buy more land, to buy more inputs.

      The future is plant-based. Anyone who doesn’t want people to die of hunger agrees with this.

      https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1713820115

      Global farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use, raising food security risks https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-farmers-facing-fertiliser-sticker-shock-may-cut-use-raising-food-security-2021-12-09/

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        8 months ago

        Animal farmers are much more likely to prevent this specific famine - when you’re displaced from your home, there is no chance you’ll harvest and bring your crops. There is a chance you can bring some animals with you.

        I understand your point, but there’s a time and place for that, and that is absolutely not here.

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          8 months ago

          This is the time, any later and it’s too late.

          Stop pretending you are the voice of reason when really you’re just selfish and lazy.

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      8 months ago

      Well in the medieval textbooks it was a valid strategy…

      But this is horrific and along the lines of torture. Genocide and death by forced starvation are disgusting, despicable things that should not be happening in this modern era.

      Netanyahu… or however you spell his name… will go down in history next to Hitler, sadly, and the Biden administration supporting this genocide is on the wrong side of history.

      Even with all this said, I’m probably still voting for Biden in 2024. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨