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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 8100136" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>The masses in this country <strong>could</strong> afford food that's more expensive but it would cut into money they presently spend on other things like fags booze and the obligatory foreign holiday or two and they really won't like that.</p><p>The masses abroad, as we already see in Sri Lanka are starting to kick off big time. But as usual its political mismanagement that has caused their problems not an inherent inability to produce their own food supply. People starve around the world generally because of political mismanagement, corruption, wars etc which make them dirt poor. Even if we double production or the price crashes, people in Yemen will starve because they have no means whatsoever of buying food and neither their government nor anybody else is willing to pay for it for them.</p><p>We will end up with global corporate agriculture with say Cargill producing millions of chickens in China at a rock bottom price but huge volumes to satisfy the Western obsession with "cheap food" all backed by Western hedge funds and incredibly rich "oligarchs". The incredibly poor will be disregarded as always. I'd be better sending a donation to Farm Africa than trying to produce wheat at less than cost of production. Problems of poverty abroad and here are solved by education and investment not by dumping product on them in the long term.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 8100136, member: 2119"] The masses in this country [B]could[/B] afford food that's more expensive but it would cut into money they presently spend on other things like fags booze and the obligatory foreign holiday or two and they really won't like that. The masses abroad, as we already see in Sri Lanka are starting to kick off big time. But as usual its political mismanagement that has caused their problems not an inherent inability to produce their own food supply. People starve around the world generally because of political mismanagement, corruption, wars etc which make them dirt poor. Even if we double production or the price crashes, people in Yemen will starve because they have no means whatsoever of buying food and neither their government nor anybody else is willing to pay for it for them. We will end up with global corporate agriculture with say Cargill producing millions of chickens in China at a rock bottom price but huge volumes to satisfy the Western obsession with "cheap food" all backed by Western hedge funds and incredibly rich "oligarchs". The incredibly poor will be disregarded as always. I'd be better sending a donation to Farm Africa than trying to produce wheat at less than cost of production. Problems of poverty abroad and here are solved by education and investment not by dumping product on them in the long term. [/QUOTE]
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