Feed People, Not Factory Farms | by Peter Singer - Project Syndicate
Peter Singer points out that even with Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s grain exports, the world produces enough food for all.
Peter Singer points out that even with Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s grain exports, the world produces enough food for all.
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Blinken is right to say that Russia is responsible for denying food to desperately needy people around the world, but let’s not pretend that other countries are powerless to prevent the food shortages brought about by Russia’s willingness to attack ships carrying Ukrainian wheat.
This is something you really don't hear often enough. We could already feed the entire planet, we just don't want to (I mean many people surely do, just not the ones who matter). Our problem isn't food or resource production, but allocation
Archer-Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus – also known by the acronym ABCD – control 70-90% of the world’s grain trade
See https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/cereal-secrets-worlds-largest-grain-traders-and-global-agriculture
Financialization seems to me to be the key issue, also in a general sense.
Everything has been turned from serving its original purpose to serving capitalist interests - ie. making more money for an extremely small upper class. Who cares if millions of people starve or don't have potable water as long as there's a profit to be made from turning food into a financial instrument - nevermind that the system no longer actually does what it claims to do, ie "efficiently allocate resources."
has been turned
You say as if it weren't always like that. Because it definitely has always been like that from the dawn of civilization, sadly.
These corporate instruments are quite efficient. Unfortunately you and I just happen to disagree with the rich and powerful about what we should be efficient at doing