The rural areas where the food is grown and subsidized by the government so they don’t even really pay for food staples and only pay for what needs to be imported into the region (note: imported, not given by the government)?
This isn’t the 1950s li’l bro. China has a agriculture first economy. There’s a reason there has been no famine in China since the great leap forward despite a complete lack of foreign food aid even during the poorest periods in modern Chinese history.
There are, of course as in all societies, criminals. Criminals steal things that will sell. I don’t suggest that the methheads selling their food stamps via buying food and selling it to strangers for half price suggest a food shortage in the US. I don’t even suggest the multiple hundreds of livestock mutilations with clearly man-made wounds that have been such an incredible staple in the American culture that they’ve inspired countless jokes and even documentaries about how ‘aliens’ are doing it are a sign of food shortage.
I don’t suggest that the methheads selling their food stamps via buying food and selling it to strangers for half price suggest a food shortage in the US.
I mean you should suggest that, because thats exactly what it is. People can’t afford food, so they are seeking out lower cost alternatives. It is a sign of a food crisis. Just like people kidnapping pets to sell for food is a sign of a food crisis.
Except it’s not. The reason the methheads do it is because they know they can still get food and they get meth instead. If they just used the food stamps for food they’d have an incredible excess. The reason people buy the half priced food is because that frees up money for the other bills imposed on them by private companies. That’s not a food crisis, there’s not a lack of food.
In this story not only is there not a lack of food, people are paying MORE MONEY in order to eat dog than other meats. Pork is cheaper than dog everywhere both are sold, which for pork is the entire country. The dog was sold to a restaurant, which brings UP THE PRICE OF FOOD. The dog wasn’t stolen to be eaten out of need, which the thief would have just done themselves.
Alternative story with the same cause and effect without the western attachment to a specific livestock as a pet: Celebrity pet Ayam Cemani Chicken stolen and sold to restaruant.
The rural areas where the food is grown and subsidized by the government so they don’t even really pay for food staples and only pay for what needs to be imported into the region (note: imported, not given by the government)?
This isn’t the 1950s li’l bro. China has a agriculture first economy. There’s a reason there has been no famine in China since the great leap forward despite a complete lack of foreign food aid even during the poorest periods in modern Chinese history.
There are, of course as in all societies, criminals. Criminals steal things that will sell. I don’t suggest that the methheads selling their food stamps via buying food and selling it to strangers for half price suggest a food shortage in the US. I don’t even suggest the multiple hundreds of livestock mutilations with clearly man-made wounds that have been such an incredible staple in the American culture that they’ve inspired countless jokes and even documentaries about how ‘aliens’ are doing it are a sign of food shortage.
I mean you should suggest that, because thats exactly what it is. People can’t afford food, so they are seeking out lower cost alternatives. It is a sign of a food crisis. Just like people kidnapping pets to sell for food is a sign of a food crisis.
Except it’s not. The reason the methheads do it is because they know they can still get food and they get meth instead. If they just used the food stamps for food they’d have an incredible excess. The reason people buy the half priced food is because that frees up money for the other bills imposed on them by private companies. That’s not a food crisis, there’s not a lack of food.
In this story not only is there not a lack of food, people are paying MORE MONEY in order to eat dog than other meats. Pork is cheaper than dog everywhere both are sold, which for pork is the entire country. The dog was sold to a restaurant, which brings UP THE PRICE OF FOOD. The dog wasn’t stolen to be eaten out of need, which the thief would have just done themselves.
Alternative story with the same cause and effect without the western attachment to a specific livestock as a pet: Celebrity pet Ayam Cemani Chicken stolen and sold to restaruant.