The contradiction between plentiful global food supplies and widespread malnutrition and hunger arises primarily from food being considered a commodity.
When it's profits at all costs, this is what you get - unchecked capitalism and mass inequality.
The contradiction between plentiful global food supplies and widespread malnutrition and hunger arises primarily from food being considered a commodity.
When it's profits at all costs, this is what you get - unchecked capitalism and mass inequality.
Yep. Just look at the bakery section of Walmart. Most of that gets thrown away, but it's more profitable to charge high prices and sell very little than to sell a lot at a lower price.
This is what we get for putting wealth on a pedestal and breeding for greed.
Not disagreeing that a lot is wasted, but that's just not true. It all gets donated unless it's unsalvageable, which is not very common.
Idk why the downvotes, I'm just correcting it with facts lol.
This is not unchecked capitalism, is capitalism working perfectly as intended and there's no other way.
Yeah well when you let 10 people have all the money and resources that tends to happen.
People in the first world need to get their bidets first.
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