The Iran war’s fertilizer shock is hammering American farmers, and 70% can’t afford what they need for this year’s growing season (fortune.com)

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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Capitalism is when no food now?

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

a lesson that the irish of the 18th century had to learn the hard way.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh no it's 1929 all over again

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Literally 1489

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Feels fucking insane that i'm the only person at my job who seems worried. Like, we sell food. What do they think is gonna happen when with the budget we're given we literally can't afford ingredients to sell?

We've already had a few weeks of really sparse produce and running out of shit like fucking cooking oil but i think that was just due to them not ordering enough

[-] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

All that obesity is about to come in clutch.

[-] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

Don’t worry, it’s 41D chess

[+] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com -6 points 1 day ago

Remember when Mao's ignorant farming policies caused famine and death to millions of Chinese ?

Welcome to tyrant country!

[-] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago

Americans see something American happening Americanly in America: what are we a bunch of ASIANS????!!?!?!

[-] Headofthebored@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My favorite is when capitalism happens in the most capitalist country to ever capitalist, but it is blamed on socialism, communism, Marxism, anarchism, Democrat or whatever other words with completely different definitions that they use interchangeably.

[-] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

WHAT ARE WE, A BUNCH OF ASIANS

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

I remember those policies and incentives being corrected and China being free from famine ever since. The US is incapable of such reexamination. The victims of the Dust Bowl remain uncounted and unmourned.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

I love how both china and Russia had cyclical famines every few decades for literal centuries and then never again under communism

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago

do tell https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25495509

[-] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

The graphs in the paper you linked show a big spike in mortality around 1960. The Great Chinese Famine was 1959 to 1961. How does Mao get credit for lower mortality in 1962 onward, but not receive blame for the famine years?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Because you have to look at the overall picture instead of cherry picking. The reality is that China was completely devastated after the war, and rebuilding was not an easy process. There was no blueprint for what to do, and people were doing their best given what they knew. The paper I linked shows that the policies proved to be correct on the whole, and life expectancy increased dramatically as a result.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Until he came along China had never suffered a single famine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines_in_China

NATOpedia source. I like how concise most of the other death counts are, except for the final famine under communism where the number is, as always, between 15 million and 100 gorrillian. Like we can accurately count the number of deaths for a famine in the 14th century, but as soon as an enemy of the west is involved the error bars blow up like a red giant.

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