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Well, then you should probably draft some legislation that: 1) forces these companies to package the "imperfect" food, and 2) hires government employees to collect and transport them to those that are starving. I'm sure that'd do a lot of good, and bring food prices down both locally and internationally.
Fam, you don't think that's what people are not trying to do? There are entire ads about reclaimed food.
"Follow the journey of a strawberry from the farm to the refrigerator to understand all that it takes to bring your food to you. Did you know that 40% of our food ends up wasted? Wasted food is the single largest contributor to landfills in the US—not to mention that it wastes water, labor, fuel, money, & love!"
It's a lot fucking easier than building or remodeling a multi-million dollar structure with a suffocating energy demand in order to grow some beats.
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What? Their use of government subsidies resulted in an economic bubble burst, which should've been obvious. Their farming practices eroded the local topsoil, which led to the Dust Bowl. Their lack of distilling biofuel from the surplus wheat led to their loss of property, which was their fault.
I'm not saying they should've been left to die, but they were pretty stupid.
I don't think you quite get the economic conditions of the early 20th century. Not only was grain and corn based fuel not a part of the public conscious let-alone not even a science yet, but so much oil was being pulled up from Texas at the time that gasoline was dirt cheap. A gallon of gas was ten-cents, adding more fuel to the fuel market would have crashed it even more and they'd still have lost their farms.
And further: you're missing the point. Capitalism always crashed after growth and everyone forgets that. They did, Hoover did, Woodrow Wilson did. Of course you can say that now because that's only in retrospect but it doesn't make you anymore intelligent than they were.
And it was hardly the farmer's fault alone either. There was a whole problem with eastern suitcase farmers coming into Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas to play acres of wheat and then leaving until harvest time when they'd scope it all up, sell it, and leave the fields barren and naked, unlike the local farmers who would have made efforts to take care of the land they lived on, because it was the land that kept them alive. Like the corporate bankers, the suitcase farmers only cared for a quick buck.
And even before the Dust Bowl in the late 19th century the wills of east coast capitalism were driving for the development of land that really should have stayed unused, or for beef production (or if they just used bison, but wait; they killed all the bison to kill all the indians!). They sold cheap acreage to immigrants from Europe who willingly settled the land because they got the American dream sold to them.
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Bro, I'm not killing anyone. That's bad, and you should feel bad.
I'm coming for that tooth brush because you missed the point again.
