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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 62 points 7 months ago

The IPC, (the people responsible for tracking and declaring famines), have released a report saying this is going to get very bad very quickly if aid isn't allowed in.

This is entirely avoidable and creating a famine is not in anyone's textbook of legitimate military strategies.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

These animal farmers are making famines worse by driving up demand for cropland and input allocation towards feed crops. The more money is shoved into the animal farming industry, the more famine there will be in the world.

edit: if you feed food to food, you're wasting food. This isn't some obscure fact. The free market on inputs and even on land allocates the resources to who pays more - and subsidies allow the animal industry to pay more, to buy more land, to buy more inputs.

The future is plant-based. Anyone who doesn't want people to die of hunger agrees with this.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1713820115

Global farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use, raising food security risks https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-farmers-facing-fertiliser-sticker-shock-may-cut-use-raising-food-security-2021-12-09/

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Mate, read the room. Tone deaf posts like this are a good reason why people hate vegans. And this is coming from a fellow vegan. Palestine isn't going to avoid famine by switching to vegan now; that's completely insane! And it would still be starving even it was 100% vegan, due to, you know, a fucking genocide happening.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Thank you, Mr. Tone Policeman

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You're welcome, but it was mostly about a shit argument, not as much about tone.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The first problem is that I posted the comment on the wrong thread. There was a different one next to it about farm business owner protests in the EU.

The second problem is that nobody noticed that the quote in my comment isn't from this article about Gaza, which means that none of the people who replied to me read the article.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

WTF are you even talking about? Your comment I answered to was this, which contains no quotes.

The only problem here is that you made a dumb mistake, refuse to own up to it and move on, and instead insist that everyone else is talking out of their arse.

Edit: fixed link to comment

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Hey, uh, this is awkward but you linked my post? I totally agree though, this VeganPizza guy picked the wrong thread for this stuff.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You're right. I fixed it now but it seems that all the links next to the comment are broken in this thread, for me at least. The links next to the name point to different comments in the thread. Maybe a Lemmy bug

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah probably a Lemmy bug.

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