• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Even with the first part, me eating or not eating the food doesn’t wouldn’t have done anything for the Africans.

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      5 months ago

      Well selling things in the west is more profitable. Our demand and food waste means that supply could have gone somewhere else. If a distributor knew our market was full they should gear to sell somewhere else. Either way its a macro argument that doesn’t mean much.

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      5 months ago

      The message isn’t “eat this to help starving kids” the message is “you could be a starving kid so get over yourself and eat the food you have abundance of”