• SpaceBar
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    381 year ago

    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
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      141 year ago

      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.

      • 👁️👄👁️
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        1 year 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      How do you explain the decrease in hunger over the last several decades? Did the profit motive just come up during the pandemic?

      • SpaceBar
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        61 year ago

        Not sure if you are posting in good faith or not, but a decrease in hunger does not mean there is no hunger in the world.

      • SpaceBar
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        21 year ago

        A decrease in hunger does not mean there is no hunger in the world.

        Really strange what-about-ism on your part. Kind of low effort.

  • @dudebro
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    11 year ago

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