World hunger rising as U.N. agencies warn of "looming catastrophe"

a reply to: Cutepants

The elitists wanted the sanctions to punish Russia now farmers are paying extra costs for the fertilizers.

+Lockdowns,
+Mandates
+Sanctions agaisnt Russia.

All these things is why we would be facing a serious crisis at some point, Western European countries wont be alone in it.

a reply to: Cutepants

It's okay if you don't get it. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
If you really want to understand, you could try reading my previous post carefully. I spelled it right out there; particularly in the first couple of sentences of my last comment.
If the super wealthy are ashamed to say these things aloud perhaps they ought to rethink their outlook.


As I wrote in my first comment, these people are sick.

a reply to: zosimov

But he literally agrees with you and you're calling him sick, I just can't let this go lol. Just read it again and think about what he's really trying to say. Like, he's being brutally honest about the state of the world. The message is not "hunger is good". You're taking it too literally.

a reply to: vNex92

Well that's a different situation, hunger as a weapon of war.

a reply to: Cutepants

No, he and I are not in agreement. You're wrong on this one.
He wrote

For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets?

He is putting himself in with those who feel that ending hunger globally would be a disaster. Us includes the speaker, does it not? Sounds to me like he is okay with people going hungry in order for his toilets to be clean.

This reads to me as a defense of the sick people who profit off others hunger; even the title espouses on the benefits of world hunger. He and I do not see eye to eye on this issue, and his perspective of people as commodities goes against everything I believe in.

a reply to: zosimov

Yeah. He understands and admits that ending world hunger would hurt his own wallet, that he would have to make sacrifices. For people like him, who are wealthy compared to people who are hungry, it would feel like a disaster.

This guy literally wrote several books about food being a human right: press.georgetown.edu...

a reply to: Cutepants

I saw that on his bio. But what I read was this either poorly written article or defense of enslaving people through their hunger.

ETA Can this be done now? If you'd like to continue this train of thought feel free to pm but I think we've taken this thread far enough off the rails. People can read the article and decide for themselves.

a reply to: zosimov

Yeah, didn't mean to bug you. I just think it's interesting to talk to people who interpret things so differently from me.

originally posted by: oddscreenname
a reply to: Cutepants

Not everyone gets to be an astronaut, sure, but who gets to decide who is destined for janitorial work and who is destined for office work?

The castle system creeping in, no?

The answer to that decision is staring back at you when you look in a mirror. We are more a result of our dreams, desires, dedication and effort more than the environment around us. There may also be a little luck involved sometimes.

By product of this pandemic

a reply to: oddscreenname

Thanks for sharing that, I thought the last paragraph was particularly telling.

For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.