VeganPizza69 Ⓥ @ veganpizza69 @lemmy.world

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move into

...more like roll over and crush: "Israeli forces bulldoze Palestinian tents, crushing people alive" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5OcE8JqkZM

Here, let me give you a preview where this far-right small business owner (petite bourgeoisie) is heading to:

https://www.inc.com/inc-staff/capitol-insurrection-business-owners.html

https://time.com/5931320/businesses-boycotted-capitol-riots/

Too many people are giving into far-right populism. It's not going to end well.

And are the farm workers protesting (and are they unionized) or are the farm owners protesting?

They are overleveraged entrepreneurs. I agree that that's not good, but that's not an excuse to maintain business as usual.

Currently, with the industrial fossil-fuel food regime, food insecurity (up to famine) happens:

• due to markets pricing out poor people (doesn't matter if there's food around if you can't buy it)
• war - destroying food growing capacity, killing or scaring away the agriculture workers, stealing harvests, or just preventing harvest seasons
• blockades, usually part of war, which is what you see in Gaza
• local production failure due to various reasons like: weather catastrophes, drought, epidemics, floods, but also economic failures such as the fail to buy inputs by the time they're needed, such as not being able to buy fertilizers because they got much more expensive to import (because production decreased and/or demand increased such as subsidized demand from rich countries)

As the climate gets more chaotic, drought, weather disasters, diseases and pests are going to become major factors in this food security state. The other aspect are inputs, especially fertilizers, which depend on fossil fuels which are both running low (getting expensive) AND must be replaced with something that isn't destroying the planet's climate. This is called a predicament.

In any sane society, resources that are scarce would be rationed according to need. And that means using cropland and inputs for food for humans. This is both for dealing with food insecurity and for mitigating climate heating.

Thank you, Mr. Tone Policeman

Oh, they're all small family farms?

Keep supporting fascists, good luck with the blood and soil crowd.

Now is the time. You sound like the people who complain about calls for gun laws after mass shootings.

Indeed, current famine is mostly due to war.

But food poverty, people skirting the edge of hunger, are affected by this.

We saw this when Putin invaded Ukraine and ruined the massive export of grains to developing countries and aid agencies.

And, indirectly, these animal farmers are making food crops less attractive, thus leading to less production of food crops, which means less food to give to aid agencies (assuming that the aid can reach those who need it).

These animal farmers are making famines worse by driving up demand for cropland and input allocation towards feed crops. The more money is shoved into the animal farming industry, the more famine there will be in the world.

edit: if you feed food to food, you're wasting food. This isn't some obscure fact. The free market on inputs and even on land allocates the resources to who pays more - and subsidies allow the animal industry to pay more, to buy more land, to buy more inputs.

The future is plant-based. Anyone who doesn't want people to die of hunger agrees with this.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1713820115

Global farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use, raising food security risks https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-farmers-facing-fertiliser-sticker-shock-may-cut-use-raising-food-security-2021-12-09/

In addition to the increased tax burden and European agriculture policies that they say are threatening their ability to survive, the French farmers also want more concessions from the government to combat rising costs of fuel and animal feed.

There it is. Welfare for business owners.

edit: nice, I commented on the wrong post. The confusion is impressive.

And since nobody mentioned it, they're to blame too. It means none of them read the article and figured out that the quoted part above is from a different post entirely.

Nope, the problem with this guy is that he got a career when he should've been shoved out of science related academia and institutions a long time ago.

The beauty of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_(psychology) (splitting one's mind)

It's embarrassing that he even got that far.

Mass late-game zergling strategy?

The US is the only country that matters in this situation.

Two sides of the same coin.

https://www.planetcritical.com/p/how-pronatalism-feeds-the-economy

again

so for the first time?