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Canada foodbanks have been struggling recently. USA has poverty. It isn't just Venezuela or North Korea.
by aprdm 3y ago
Canada foodbanks have been struggling recently. USA has poverty. It isn't just Venezuela or North Korea.
- Manuel_D 3y agoCorrect, but in America impoverished people are more likely to be obese than the general population. People experiencing food insecurity tend to consume calorie dense cheap food. This is not nearly the same as Venezuela or North Korea, which can't supply enough calories to feed their people.
- downrightmike 3y agoAmerican Farm subsidies to over produce > Lots of cheap food pretty much everywhere it even created the school lunch programs we have today > fed/overfed people. We even have billions of blocks of cheese in a cave system because of the dairy subsidies. I'm all for subsidies, except that the people that have farms couldn't survive without it and think they are doing it all on their own and voting regressive even though they likely wouldn't exist without the generations of subsidies their families took.
- mcpackieh 3y agoWhen it comes to food supply, abundance is more important than efficiency. Maximally efficient systems are fragile and fragility is precisely what you don't want when the failure mode is mass starvation.
- lost_tourist 3y agoDon't forget diversity as well. If we only eat potatos and some new fungus mutation wipes out the potato crop then you're fucked.