The contradiction between plentiful global food supplies and widespread malnutrition and hunger arises primarily from food being considered a commodity.

When it's profits at all costs, this is what you get - unchecked capitalism and mass inequality.

[–] dudebro@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep. Just look at the bakery section of Walmart. Most of that gets thrown away, but it's more profitable to charge high prices and sell very little than to sell a lot at a lower price.

This is what we get for putting wealth on a pedestal and breeding for greed.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not disagreeing that a lot is wasted, but that's just not true. It all gets donated unless it's unsalvageable, which is not very common.

Idk why the downvotes, I'm just correcting it with facts lol.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is not unchecked capitalism, is capitalism working perfectly as intended and there's no other way.

[+] Bautznersenf@feddit.de -11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What are you guys on??? People aren't going hungry in capitalist countries. If you checked were all the famines were happening last century and this century, it was not in capitalistic countries.

[–] MulhollandDr@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

hmmm its almost like capitalist countries exploitation of non capitalist countries might have something to do with it.

Also that doesnt explain why people still starve to death in capitalist countries.

dumbass

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why do you think that happens bro? Why do you think people in those wonderful nations have such high living standards? Because they live off the backs of the exploited.

[–] Bautznersenf@feddit.de -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Countries that have mass starvation or mass hunger are plagued by corruption and war. North Koreans are not starving because south Korea is a capitalist country, but because it's ruled by a spoiled brat.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6QR2yyWRYWw

The image of a thriving society that's not starving. Please do the world a favour and lobotomize yourself so that at least you will say less stupid things than with frontal lobe.

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[–] Bautznersenf@feddit.de -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You live in a different universe if you think homeless camps in Atlanta are comparable to famines in north Korea or Ethiopia.

[–] 133arc585@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

You're right. In one, the country has plenty of wealth and resources and just chooses to let its people starve rather than helping them.

[–] xxkickassjackxx@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

The United States is the wealthiest country in the history of the world and yet somehow manages to have more people doing slave labor (incarcerations for minor nonviolent crimes), more children starving, more violent crime, and more homelessness than almost any other modernized western nation. That’s not the sign of a system that works, and it doesn’t work because despite being wealthy as a group, individually Americans are divided into haves and have nots. Those that have HAVE EVERYTHING and do ANYTHING to maintain the status quo by tricking a lot of the have nots, statistically have nots like you, into believing this is the natural order of the world.

You are not a serf, you are not a slave, you are a human being deserving of a reasonable quality of life and so are the other 99% of Americans that are deprived of a respectful life because 1% of the people suck away wealth and vitality like vampires.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You're attacking Africa now, wow, you must thrive on seeing other people suffer.

[–] 133arc585@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

People aren’t going hungry in capitalist countries.

Are you kidding? People go hungry constantly in capitalist countries, it's just perhaps people you are told not to care about.

Homeless people routinely go hungry.
Disabled people routinely go hungry.
Low-income people routinely go hungry.
With the sociopathic demonization of free lunch programs for kids in schools, children routinely go hungry.

Food bank usage has soared, which doesn't solve the problem, but simply temporarily alleviates it for those who have access to food banks. Many places don't have food banks accessible, and if you don't have transportation, getting to the nearest is not always feasible.

I have first-hand experience of going hungry, being in a capitalist country. To pretend it doesn't happen is to be blind and ignorant.

[–] Pili@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

There are people who are hungry in the fucking USA. School kids literally can't eat lunch.

[–] xxkickassjackxx@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago

Yeah well when you let 10 people have all the money and resources that tends to happen.

[–] dudebro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

People in the first world need to get their bidets first.

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