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International food prices have gone up 25%. Many regions like Sudan or warring regions don't have enough locally-grown food. There are famines going on in FOUR

by hajile 5y ago

International food prices have gone up 25%. Many regions like Sudan or warring regions don't have enough locally-grown food. There are famines going on in FOUR countries at the moment and food growth has generally slowed the past couple years too. Your suggestion of price controls is like a certain French queen telling her starving population to just eat cake. It's easy to dismiss what these people are going through because it's far away and out of sight. I don't want to be that person. https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/brief/food-security-and-covid-19 https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/brief/food-se... https://www.un.org/en/food-systems-summit/news/2021-going-be-bad-year-world-hunger https://www.un.org/en/food-systems-summit/news/2021-going-be... https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1072712 https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1072712 https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094472 https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094472

sudosysgen 5y ago
I'm not dismissing them. I'm telling you that international food prices do not matter. These farmers do not sell their food at international prices. That's something that's allowed in very few third world countries. I'm not making a suggestion, I'm informing you of the reality. If my family growing up had to pay international food prices I'd be dead or severely stunted. It's not far away and out of sight, I come from a third world country myself. If it weren't for these laws 99% of the food would be exported and people would starve. It's definitely an issue for regions that cannot grow their own food, yes. There are not enough of those for 130 million people to starve. And while yes, there are multiple ongoing famines, none of them are caused by lockdowns. Instead, their root cause is either drought, crop failure or predominantly war. It's important we find the right causes. Food growth has not slowed. The growth in food growth has slowed. Food production is still increasing every year. I don't mean to say that hunger is not an issue. It is. It's just that lockdowns have not been a significant issue in this respect. In the places where hunger is a deadly issue, international food prices simply do not matter.

by hajile 5y ago

sudosysgen 5y ago

I'm not dismissing them. I'm telling you that international food prices do not matter. These farmers do not sell their food at international prices. That's something that's allowed in very few third world countries. I'm not making a suggestion, I'm informing you of the reality. If my family growing up had to pay international food prices I'd be dead or severely stunted. It's not far away and out of sight, I come from a third world country myself. If it weren't for these laws 99% of the food would be exported and people would starve. It's definitely an issue for regions that cannot grow their own food, yes. There are not enough of those for 130 million people to starve. And while yes, there are multiple ongoing famines, none of them are caused by lockdowns. Instead, their root cause is either drought, crop failure or predominantly war. It's important we find the right causes. Food growth has not slowed. The growth in food growth has slowed. Food production is still increasing every year. I don't mean to say that hunger is not an issue. It is. It's just that lockdowns have not been a significant issue in this respect. In the places where hunger is a deadly issue, international food prices simply do not matter.