manic_depressive13 said:
Crops are shipped halfway across the world all the damn time.
I knew those Russian grain carriers I used to see down at the grain docks when I worked there for a couple of summers in my late teens were there for more than just buying up several palettes of bogroll and selling cheap vodka and cuban cigars...
World hunger isn't an issue of not being able to produce or effectively distribute enough food. It's an issue with capitalism. We have nothing to gain by feeding the masses in poor countries.
It's not
just capitalism, although that a massive part of it. A related issue is what's called Food Security - ensuring your nation's continuing food supply is protected, and in capitalist societies that means ensuring farming remains economically viable for enough producers to give national self-sufficiency in staple foods. Food Security is the backbone for the Agricultural policies of most nations, either attaining or maintaining it... and has been the cause of several trans-Atlantic 'trade wars'.
