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> throw away enough spoiled food to feed every hungry mouth on the planet In Somalia, we shipped containers full of rice and much of it was stolen by warlords.

> throw away enough spoiled food to feed every hungry mouth on the planet In Somalia, we shipped containers full of rice and much of it was stolen by warlords. Yet, if we send troops, you'd scream anti-war. If we don't send troops, the rice gets stolen and people starve. Perhaps inconsistently, you complain that there are too many people, but then decry us for not feeding all of those people. You complain about carbon footprints, yet somehow, excess food in San Francisco needs to be sent to people in Bangladesh. How does that happen? On a ship perhaps? Maybe sailboats? We'll need refrigeration. Solar? We could shanghai a battalion of fat people to row it across the ocean? > 90% of us just need to immediately cease to exist Other than mass murder, what do you propose we do? You're anti-war, so we can't use that to reduce the population. You complain about people starving, so clearly that isn't a means to handle the issue. I'm at a loss. Perhaps mass sterilization of undesirables? I think we tried that a while back and that didn't turn out too well. Birth control? Maybe, but most humans actually want to reproduce and have families.

ryanmercer 8y ago
> excess food in San Francisco needs to be sent to people in Bangladesh. Most of that food in San Francisco is coming from other countries to start. The U.S. imports 50 percent of fresh fruits, 20 percent of fresh vegetables and 80 percent of seafood. We EXPORTED 133 billion dollars of food in 2017, the bulk of that being soybeans, beef and poultry. Neither of these practices are sustainable and the US isn't alone in this practice. People don't want a can of corn that was grown locally in the past year or two, they want a fresh cob grown in the past few weeks which has to be shipped from another hemisphere. They don't want frozen fruit, they want to go to the grocery and pick over visually appealing fresh fruit that just finished its trip from China to their local retailer in Bumsville, Idaho. Did you know that in the U.S. alone the cattle we raise eat enough grain to feed a BILLION people? The average cow will eat EIGHTEEN TONS of feed per year. Don't get me wrong, I love a hamburger or some beef sausage on my pizza but...

ryanmercer 8y ago

> excess food in San Francisco needs to be sent to people in Bangladesh. Most of that food in San Francisco is coming from other countries to start. The U.S. imports 50 percent of fresh fruits, 20 percent of fresh vegetables and 80 percent of seafood. We EXPORTED 133 billion dollars of food in 2017, the bulk of that being soybeans, beef and poultry. Neither of these practices are sustainable and the US isn't alone in this practice. People don't want a can of corn that was grown locally in the past year or two, they want a fresh cob grown in the past few weeks which has to be shipped from another hemisphere. They don't want frozen fruit, they want to go to the grocery and pick over visually appealing fresh fruit that just finished its trip from China to their local retailer in Bumsville, Idaho. Did you know that in the U.S. alone the cattle we raise eat enough grain to feed a BILLION people? The average cow will eat EIGHTEEN TONS of feed per year. Don't get me wrong, I love a hamburger or some beef sausage on my pizza but...