Website review: Socialist Project | The Bullet
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wordylefty discovered 2 months ago- Part One: `The greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model' Ian Angus "If the government cannot lower the cost of living it simply has to leave. If the police and UN troops want to shoot at us, that's OK, because in the end, if we are not killed by bullets, we'll die of hunger." - A demonstrator in Port-au-Prince, Haiti "In Haiti, where most people get 22% fewer calories than the minimum needed for good health, some are staving off their hunger pangs by eating "mud biscuits" made by mixing clay and water with a bit of vegetable oil and salt.[1] Meanwhile, in Canada, the federal government is currently paying $225 for each pig killed in a mass cull of breeding swine, as part of a plan to reduce hog production. Hog farmers, squeezed by low hog prices and high feed costs, have responded so enthusiastically that the kill will likely use up all the allocated funds before the program ends in September. Some of the slaughtered hogs may be given to local Food Banks, but most will be destroyed or made into pet food. None will go to Haiti. This is the brutal world of capitalist agriculture - a world where some people destroy food because prices are too low, and others literally eat dirt because food prices are too high."
- Spygirly rated 7 weeks ago
- FOOD CRISIS Part One: The greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model. By Ian Angus
- davide149 rated 2 months ago
- further the crisis is another example of poorly thought out and incorrect political decisions.
- surlyotter rated 2 months ago
- I am definitely going to look at part two of this article, because as it stands it reads like a litany against capitalism without much in the way of viable alternatives. Some first thoughts, however: this article seems to be suggesting a model of national and regional food self-sufficiency: this would not be a good idea -- some countries are much better endowed than others (both absolutely and comparatively), and reinstating high tariffs on rice might help Haitian rice farmers, but it won't help Haitian consumers of rice except where the consumer is the farmer with more money in his pocket. If we really want to see development 'work', however, people may need to get out of subsistence farming to move towards cash crops and -- following the industrialization model -- diversify away from agriculture more generally. This is, of course, a divisive topic. It is also a very important one.
- webchat rated 2 months ago
- If you want to know the history behind the global increases in food prices then look no further...
