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Extremely not-fun fact: collectively, humanity currently produces more than enough food for every person. But a huge part of it is either wasted or inaccessible by people that need them, which usually results in them not going to anyone and being wasted, which is why we still have food scarcity.

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[–] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

obligatory grapes of wrath quote

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

[–] OpenStars@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume that "that side" can / will read.

(\s btw, as I'm sure you guessed but others may not have so... just in case:-D)

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m on that side and I read. Quick list all the books you’ve read in the past year, then I’ll show you mine.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What side are you on? Why are you challenging online strangers to a pissing contest?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I’m sorry I thought I was responding to a challenge. Or am I just supposed to let my people be disparaged like this?

And you know what side.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeesh, you're a very abrasive person.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone was insulting me. How do you not see that?

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Look up persecutory delusions