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Food was weaponized a long time ago. Modern famines generally are not due to lack of resources or economic problems.
by hedora 3y ago
Food was weaponized a long time ago. Modern famines generally are not due to lack of resources or economic problems.
- lawn 3y agoAnd North Korea did create a famine before too, where they asked the population to give everything they had to the government and said that they would take care of everything. And then they sectioned off parts of the country and let them starve.
- est31 3y agoI would have agreed with you until last year. Now, thanks to the Ukraine war, we see massive price increases for food in egypt and the middle east. For a lot of people there, food became economically way more unavailable. The interesting part about this is that usually it's the war zones where the famine happens because it's virtually impossible to bring food there. But in this instance, the war was in the producer country.