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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (81 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (26 children)

2.5% is the hunger rate of China according to your source. So I decided to look up the US and see how it compares. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/food-security-and-nutrition-assistance/

10% or in other words china is currently 4x better at feeding the hungry than the US is. 10% of 300+million is also around 30+million, so a comparable number but just out of an incomparably smaller population.

So you, following the advice of people who cannot get hunger below 10%, in a country with enough food waste to solve the problem, think that people on the other side of the world, whose hunger problem is only a quarter of your neighbors, should fix their hunger by growing LESS FOOD in favor of cash crops? Is that correct?

If I'm misrepresenting you please let me know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (25 children)

So I decided to look up the US and see how it compares.

Whataboutism.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Ok but why are you so angry about people so far away from you when your neighbors are suffering more (at the hands of the people telling us what it's like 'over there's)

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