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markpreston54 t1_j834lh2 wrote
Reply to comment by Coloradostoneman in [OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa) by latinometrics
Maybe not double, but when it comes to food you better be safe than sorry
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Reply to comment by GrandDukeOfNowhere in I was voted “Least likely to Succeed” by my high school class. by porichoygupto
Well, not that they let you know.
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markpreston54 t1_ixfri37 wrote
Is the 999% real, or is it just a display error on the graphical software that limits large percentage to 999%
markpreston54 t1_j84kg35 wrote
Reply to comment by Coloradostoneman in [OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa) by latinometrics
If you somehow feel that obesity is even close to the problem of hunger is the very evidence that the food policy US had is quite successful.
Frankly speaking obesity may take several years off your life, but starvation takes all of them.
Besides, obesity is a life choice and one can very well just not eat and throwaway any leftover. We can't do that if we don't have the food in the first place.
One thing that contributed the high obesity rate is high food cost of healthy food, so there are arguments to be made to expand the growing of the healthy food, maybe corn land should be spared for the healthier vegetables, but this is not argument for not growing excess food at all