I’m being honest, it’s looking more and more like a “within our lifetime” by the hour
Is this legit? How credible is this
It’s an extraordinary coincidence that at the same time all this planned starvation stuff is going mainstream, a war in Ukraine (who apparently produces a ton of food and exports it to the West. How many people do you think knew that before last month?) is apparently disrupting something as essential as wheat.
In Western Austria (where I live) a lot of Ukrainians actually were the ones harvesting wheat
We can eat other things than wheat, or do I fail to see the bigger picture of this?
What’s stopping people from eating, let’s say, rice or just other forms of carbs? Or is my opinion too Western focussed?
I imagine livestock needs to eat as well. In countries with already limited food, that might cause a dilemma.
That and wheat is used to make a loooot of other food lol so thats gonna be many a empty shelves in stores, if its true
Stores over here (Belgium) already have trouble with some products. It’s been months since I’ve last seen a bottle of sunflower oil. Some pasta sections have been empty for a while now too. Bread is not yet a problem it seems.
Curious to see where it goes from here.
Well, i doubt it will improve, at least for the next few months… but hey who knows.
China has a huge reserve of it right now. The globe is gonna come begging them to bail everyone out and then the west will demonize them for it.
They also have the worlds largest reserves of rice. China is second only to the US in maize production but, unfortunately like most countries, it is generally for livestock feed.
India has stopped exporting grain, they don’t want to be the next Sri Lanka. Smart. I despise Modi and the BJP but much like Turkey under Erdogan (another despicable character) they have managed to position themselves very cleverly in this situation, very much playing both sides and looking out for themselves.
Modi/Erdogan
Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend. It sucks, but US unipolar hegemony is the #1 threat to world peace (and due to the US role in climate change - an immediate threat to the planet). It must be weakened.
deleted by creator
It’s like that biblical story where Joseph stockpiles grain for 7 years in Egypt and during the famine his brothers who sold him into slavery come begging for just a little to eat
Weren’t they just jealous of his insane drip anyways?
I don’t think we should take that reactionary rag too seriously
Just eat another grain like rice or whatever. Starvation solved.
While the Liberal fake news are talking about wheat limitation, is NATO the one who create protectionism against Uyghur farmers to ‘save’ them from slavery? Also, why can the Western Liberals not be hard working and innovative enough to create their own wheat farms? The Liberals should be able to produce theor own wheat since they dictate that the Communists are so hard working and innovative that the invisible hand of the market employ Communist masterminds in key positions of American society.
The next harvest is also in 10 weeks
They gonna push the “eat bugs” narration from celebrity and pseudoleft take into the mainstream…
No thanks, the Snowpiercer diet is not for me.
I honestly don’t see a problem with it, when I first ate one, it tasted like chicken
Good for you. Bad for you, when you do not see a problem with it when the world is producing much more than needed but people are still being told to eat bugs by self-proclaimed “socialists”.
Bugs are crazy nutritious though. If you can form them into a burger and say nothing people wouldn’t mind I think.
and say nothing
This is the fucking problem here too. They are gonna do it.
Honest question but if bugs become a valid food source, why would that be bad?
Eat it all you want, if you want. But any talk of bugs when west wastes 40% of the food (and non west are also guilty of that to the lesser extent) is simply bourgeoisie talk.
I seriously hope i die before it comes to that, because it will mean the world is truly and ultimately fucked up. Even in the worst times of hunger people here did not eat bugs and i fully share that sentiment.
I can understand your point, thanks for elaborating. It´s true what you say, lots of food goes to waste.
I think I just saw it like an option. Since I live in a Western country where I never had to go hungry before, eating bugs as an alternative to meat was what I had in mind. Having a low-impact source of nutrition instead of meat is great.
But when looking at the massive amount of waste that gets produced, eating bugs should indeed have a really low priority. There are a lot of things that should be fixed before bugs should be an option. Food security is the number one priority.
There are a lot of things that should be fixed before bugs should be an option. Food security is the number one priority.
Exactly. How i see that, the food supply would have to really dwindle for that, which means capitalism in the terminal stage (of Earth).
Fair enough. I ate some worms once and it was okay-ish. But I eat plant based and I manage just fine while doing so. So I don’t have the urge to eat bugs either, really.
