• StolenStalin [comrade/them,they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2.5% is the hunger rate of China according to your source. So I decided to look up the US and see how it compares. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/food-security-and-nutrition-assistance/

    10% or in other words china is currently 4x better at feeding the hungry than the US is. 10% of 300+million is also around 30+million, so a comparable number but just out of an incomparably smaller population.

    So you, following the advice of people who cannot get hunger below 10%, in a country with enough food waste to solve the problem, think that people on the other side of the world, whose hunger problem is only a quarter of your neighbors, should fix their hunger by growing LESS FOOD in favor of cash crops? Is that correct?

    If I’m misrepresenting you please let me know

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      1 year ago

      So I decided to look up the US and see how it compares.

      Whataboutism.

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          1 year ago

          An unnecessary comparison. I’m talking about 1 in 40 Chinese people facing hunger, this has absolutely nothing to do with America.

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            1 year ago

            It does because you’re claiming that the system that America is the best example of: letting the free market run food security, is superior to what China is doing. This is an incorrect statement as proven by statistics.

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              It does because you’re claiming that the system that America is the best example of: letting the free market run food security

              Putting words in my mouth.

              Also you used a different metric from the metric I used. China and America have the exact same (2.5%) hunger rate using the same source. Typical Hexbear lying.

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                1 year ago

                Putting words in my mouth.

                You’re being facetious: How do you expect underpaid, overworked farmers to turn a profit and provide for their families if you’re making them grow a bunch of dirt cheap rice?

                There is no other way to interpret this comment other than demanding the farmer(s) sell the product of their choice at the market, favoring the individual over the collective here.

                China and America have the exact same (2.5%) hunger rate using the same source.

                Because the PRC is still a developing country, and their hunter rate was much worse in the past, that means (pretending your lies and misdirection are real) they are improving to close the gap and ensure food security.

                Again, all of your posts boil down to:

                wojak-nooo : NOOO YOU HAVE TO HATE CHINA!! SEESEEPEE BOTS NOOOO!! STOP GIVING ME COUNTERARGUMENTS!! NOOO!! HATE CHINA WITH ME!! NO!!!

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                  There is no other way to interpret this comment other than demanding the farmer(s) sell the product of their choice at the market, favoring the individual over the collective here.

                  The government could make them grow green rice but give them extra money to make up for it. Farmers deserve fair pay. Of course, the millionaires and billionaires of the CCP wouldn’t want that.

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        Nah it’s pointing out how the approach you suggest (let the free market decide what’s profitable to grow for food security) is inferior to what China is doing.