As a parent the idea of not being able to obtain food for my child is literally a worst nightmare.
Your nightmares are tame, my worst nightmare is an 87-foot Donald Duck that eats memories.
Making a joke on a comment like that, on a post like this… 🤨
Daily reminder that Donald Duck is based AF. He is canonically a war vet with PTSD, and is at least a socialist if not a full blown communist.
Donald would be protesting the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.
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.
Well in the medieval textbooks it was a valid strategy…
But this is horrific and along the lines of torture. Genocide and death by forced starvation are disgusting, despicable things that should not be happening in this modern era.
Netanyahu… or however you spell his name… will go down in history next to Hitler, sadly, and the Biden administration supporting this genocide is on the wrong side of history.
Even with all this said, I’m probably still voting for Biden in 2024. 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
Well in the medieval textbooks it was a valid strategy…
Embracing medievalism to own the heretics.
With how bad Trump is, it’s understandable. But make sure to vote pro palestinian candidates if there are any in primaries or on the ballot.
You don’t have to go to medieval ages. It was legal to put certain ethnic groups in concentration camps only 80 years ago. Encouraged even…
Genocide Joe must be punished for his support of israel.
If you vote Biden this time it directly signals the Democrats that there is no line they are not allowed to cross.
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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/
Yeah, I don’t think that’s actually the main reason the people of Gaza are starving right now.
Indeed, current famine is mostly due to war.
But food poverty, people skirting the edge of hunger, are affected by this.
We saw this when Putin invaded Ukraine and ruined the massive export of grains to developing countries and aid agencies.
And, indirectly, these animal farmers are making food crops less attractive, thus leading to less production of food crops, which means less food to give to aid agencies (assuming that the aid can reach those who need it).
Sorry, I apparently wasn’t being direct enough, let me try again; it’s gross to use the starvation of Palestinian civilians, caused by an illegal blockade on humanitarian supplies, as a springboard for vegan talking points, and you should be embarrassed that you just did that.
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We get it, you’re a vegan. Now, just for one second, try to not be self-centred and ask yourself whether, if you were in Gaza right now, and all you had was a thick, juicy, steak, you would eat it.
The answer is yes. If your answer is “no” then you don’t understand the situation there, you don’t understand hunger, try again until you do.
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.
Thank you, Mr. Tone Policeman
You’re welcome, but it was mostly about a shit argument, not as much about tone.
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.
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.
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Hey, uh, this is awkward but you linked my post? I totally agree though, this VeganPizza guy picked the wrong thread for this stuff.
Animal farmers are much more likely to prevent this specific famine - when you’re displaced from your home, there is no chance you’ll harvest and bring your crops. There is a chance you can bring some animals with you.
I understand your point, but there’s a time and place for that, and that is absolutely not here.
This is the time, any later and it’s too late.
Stop pretending you are the voice of reason when really you’re just selfish and lazy.
You, personally, are a net negative voice for this movement. If you never spoke of veganism again, you’d have a more positive impact than if you continue what you’re doing. The way you’re acting is responsible for the deaths of more animals than you’re preventing.
Genuinely amazing how commited you are as to lying to yourself. Pretend that I’m the problem. Wow. I don’t care if I change your mind, I have very little doubt about that. I’ve tried, but I’m still allowed my platform the same way you are, or don’t you believe in free speech?
Yeah, I can see how you’re trying - even if I wanted to, I couldn’t pretend to be a worse activist than you are. But sure, keep killing those innocents with your cowardly behaviour - after all, you have FREE SPEECH! And those darn innocents, who are they to tell you what to say and not say?
One day you’ll realise how shitty a human you are, choosing to eat our only companions in this universe.
Now is the time. You sound like the people who complain about calls for gun laws after mass shootings.
Dude, there is no food shortage due to too much animal farming in this conflict. There is food shortage because one state is trying to genocide the people of another state. Even if all of Palestine and the whole world were fully vegan, Gazans wouldn’t have more to eat.
Please explain to me how your point is in any way applicable. You are literally making vegans look stupid, and I’m saying that as someone who is trying to move closer and closer towards veganism. Imagine you posted this under a news article regarding a school shooting - would you think that’s the right place and time to post this, even if the time is now?
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Yeah but there’s enough calories to do this right on the other side of the Israeli Gaza border. The Israeli’s could end this, right now.
The problem is not a lack of food. The problem is a lack of logistics to get the food to the people. And the cause of the problem is not farmers. It is the regions most powerful military activly blocking aid. Soon it will also be because the government of said country successfully lobbied to defund the aid organization with established networks with Gaza.
The solution is simple. Don’t activly block food from Gaza, and food will appear in Gaza. Almost like magic. If magic was the result of decades of hard work in building a new world order after world war 2.
Feel free to educate me if I am wrong, but I vaguely remember reading somewhere that famine happens due to lack of logistics rather than lack of limited food in the world. I still think future is plant based for other reasons(emissions, cost, etc) but is the solution to famines producing more food or providing more logistics? Or maybe a combination of both?
Currently, with the industrial fossil-fuel food regime, food insecurity (up to famine) happens:
- due to markets pricing out poor people (doesn’t matter if there’s food around if you can’t buy it)
- war - destroying food growing capacity, killing or scaring away the agriculture workers, stealing harvests, or just preventing harvest seasons
- blockades, usually part of war, which is what you see in Gaza
- local production failure due to various reasons like: weather catastrophes, drought, epidemics, floods, but also economic failures such as the fail to buy inputs by the time they’re needed, such as not being able to buy fertilizers because they got much more expensive to import (because production decreased and/or demand increased such as subsidized demand from rich countries)
As the climate gets more chaotic, drought, weather disasters, diseases and pests are going to become major factors in this food security state. The other aspect are inputs, especially fertilizers, which depend on fossil fuels which are both running low (getting expensive) AND must be replaced with something that isn’t destroying the planet’s climate. This is called a predicament.
In any sane society, resources that are scarce would be rationed according to need. And that means using cropland and inputs for food for humans. This is both for dealing with food insecurity and for mitigating climate heating.
Of the around 600,000 people facing starvation across the globe, 95% are now in Gaza
according to figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, a consortium of U.N. agencies and nonprofit relief groups. The figures, which the group says are their best assessment of the current situation, show that the rest live in South Sudan, which has been riven by a brutal civil war since spring 2023.
Public opinion is definitely skewing more towards Palestine, at least here in Britain. Where I live, I genuinely saw a pro-Palestine march back in October attended by thousands, along with Palestinian flags waved everywhere around town. Haven’t seen any Israeli flags or marchers by comparison, and I don’t think that’s out of fear.
The only people I’ve seen genuinely throw support towards Israel have been Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.
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It was clear that this is how it’s going to go, Israel planned this. The deliberatley destroyed all the infrastructure and sealed them in. I knew the body count would rise to possibly a million. It is a genocide.
Presumably Israel hopes to push the Palestinians out to Egypt or other countries. That is Israel’s “Final Solution”.
My european country supports this genocide by backing Israel. I feel deeply ashamed.
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It’s being reported as an “opinion piece”, but I see no markers on the article indicating that.
Here’s an example of a CNN opinion piece:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/opinions/taylor-swift-deepfakes-ai-segall/index.html
Y’all can stop reporting this now, I’m not removing it.
In addition to the increased tax burden and European agriculture policies that they say are threatening their ability to survive, the French farmers also want more concessions from the government to combat rising costs of fuel and animal feed.
There it is. Welfare for business owners.
edit: nice, I commented on the wrong post. The confusion is impressive.
And since nobody mentioned it, they’re to blame too. It means none of them read the article and figured out that the quoted part above is from a different post entirely.
Your class analysis is off by twenty miles. A labourer owning a hammer and taking on contracts instead of receiving a wage doesn’t make them bourgeois.
Oh, they’re all small family farms?
Keep supporting fascists, good luck with the blood and soil crowd.
They’re all smaller than Carrefour. That’s the kind of place where the billions are landing while farmers, even if they have employees, are happy if they make minimum wage on a three-year average and don’t go bankrupt.
These are not the fat cats you’re looking for.
And are the farm workers protesting (and are they unionized) or are the farm owners protesting?
They are overleveraged entrepreneurs. I agree that that’s not good, but that’s not an excuse to maintain business as usual.
Yes, farm workers are protesting, at least in Germany. It’s in fact the small family farms who aren’t protesting because they literally can’t afford to, larger ones are doing it for them, owner and employees joining ranks because employees are smart enough to see that their boss isn’t earning more than them, even if they wanted to they couldn’t afford it. Which is also why the average tractor you see at those protests is quite impressive family farms can’t afford that kind of hardware (and have no need for it either, and if they have, they borrow one or own one by means of a coop).
Marxist class analysis does not look at whether you’re an employer or entrepreneur, but your power relationship to capital. And by that measure farmers range from petite bourgeois (if they’re very lucky) down to right-out Lumpen.
As said: Just because a day labourer owns a hammer doesn’t mean they have anything to say regarding their work, any power to siphon off surplus value, etc.
Marxist class analysis does not look at whether you’re an employer or entrepreneur, but your power relationship to capital. And by that measure farmers range from petite bourgeois (if they’re very lucky) down to right-out Lumpen.
Lumpen? Lol. I’m from Romania, we still have subsistence farmers. That’s “lumpen”.
You’re talking about small business owners getting corporate welfare for decades, slowly losing to the bigger capitalists, which is the inevitable result of capitalism.
I agree that the competition issue is a problem, but most of them will support neoliberalism: deregulation, the race to the bottom. That’s a problem because they’re destroying the planet.
And the animal sector needs to end. The feed crop farmers can switch to food crops.
You’re talking about small business owners getting corporate welfare for decades, slowly losing to the bigger capitalists, which is the inevitable result of capitalism.
Talking about Germany: We’re talking about farmers getting squeezed out by supermarkets and other traders and by subsidies geared towards increasing farm size. It has been decades-long state policy to shaft small farmers and benefit large ones.
That exact subsidy regime is what they’re protesting.
I agree that the competition issue is a problem, but most of them will support neoliberalism: deregulation, the race to the bottom.
They’re protesting that EU environmental and animal welfare regulations are costing them too much, yes. But they aren’t fundamentally opposed to those regulations, they simply don’t want to be the ones stuck with the bill. They can’t afford those bills.
And the animal sector needs to end. The feed crop farmers can switch to food crops.
Bullshit. Intensive animal farming needs to end, meat needs to become more expensive (and also btw butcher’s wages need to be increased), protein imports need to end (i.e. South American soy), but Europe has plenty of agricultural land to produce meat sustainably. There’s plenty of landscapes we can’t preserve without animal agriculture as European bisons aren’t really a thing, any more, neither are wolves which would be necessary to keep the bisons in check should they be re-introduced on a larger scale and we refuse to hunt them.
If you don’t want to eat meat that’s your choice and I support it, but don’t expect that bullshit statistics (like counting water raining down on meadows as “water use”) impress anyone not invested in your moral system. Least of all ecologists.
Honestly, the fact that you’re trying to portray large land owners with and high-tech capital owners as “those workers” is extremely amusing, and also tragic, as you’re supporting the soil of fascism.
Many of those farmers don’t own land, they lease it. Maybe they own one field because they come from an old farming family, but not the rest of the fields they need to even break even. And a tractor needs to be driven and you need to get up early even if it is GPS-enabled and can micro-dose fertiliser into the exact spots the field needs.
Don’t bring your US “one farm from horizon to horizon” POV into European agriculture. That’s pretty much the case pretty much nowhere over here.
Lastly, I never said “those workers”. Did you even reply to the right comment.
Here, let me give you a preview where this far-right small business owner (petite bourgeoisie) is heading to:
https://www.inc.com/inc-staff/capitol-insurrection-business-owners.html
https://time.com/5931320/businesses-boycotted-capitol-riots/
Too many people are giving into far-right populism. It’s not going to end well.
The fuck has the US to do with any of this.
Same class of bourgeois.
To be fair, the original comment I made here was meant for a completely different post that was next to this one in the main feed.
Nobody bothered to point that out specifically, as nobody read the fucking article here either and noticed that my quote didn’t belong to it.
Food aid does reach Gaza, but Hamas steals it all.
Honest question: can you send over a source or sources for that?
Before someone calls me a shill for Israel I think Bibi and his entire cabinet belongs in a prison, but I’m not ignorant enough to condemn an entire population for the actions of their government.
Thanks for sending these over.
I completely agree by the way that we should not condemn an entire population because of their government!
“The womb of the woman will be our strongest weapon against the Zionists!”
- Yasser Arafat
Seems to be a humanitarian crisis of their own doing…
Imagine if all their concrete and rebar had gone to actual humanitarian projects instead of tunnels and bases to conduct terrorism from…
Israel could end this right now by allowing aid into Gaza or showing Gazans to evacuate properly.
Evacuation routes have been implemented… Hamas snipers shot civilians trying to leave through corridors.
The war ends today if the hostages are released.
The IDF is not allowing them to leave the combat zone. Just move to different parts. If they were allowed to evacuate they would be in IDP camps outside Gaza. Also, i’d love to see proof for that claim. Proof like the videos of IDF soldiers shooting unarmed civilians with white flags.
You can lob all the accusations you want to distract from the issue. If the entire strip actually did humanitarian work instead of terrorism, it would be in a much better place.
Yeah all these 5 year old terrorists had it coming, they can go fuck themselves
You just proved my original point.
If the entire world did humanitarian work then it would be a better place. Why are you singling out the people being forcibly starved by a foreign military?
You should head to Gaza then, I’m sure you could do a lot of good.
No, not really. Because the IDF wouldn’t let me in to do it.
The war ends today if the hostages are released.
Oh come on. It was never about the hostages. If anything, Netanyahu must have had a cramp trying to hold back a huge smile when he heard about the hostages. It is the perfect alibi to wage this war. He doesn’t want the hostages released, they are his best reason for the war. At least for starting it. It is obvious there is no intention to stop even if they will be released now. If I remember correctly, they suggested a two month ceasefire for all hostages. Not the end of the war. Just a short break, and God knows how likely it is to be broken.
The current conflict literally started the day the hostages were taken.
Seems to be a humanitarian crisis of their own doing…
Houthis saying the exact same thing as the traffic through the Suez declines by 82%
Yes, that would be the perspective of someone who has no issue with terrorism being used to achieve political goals.
I’m sure you also believe that the far right is fully within it’s rights to kidnap senators and storm capitols?
the perspective of someone who has no issue with terrorism being used to achieve political goals
Apparently you can sponsor a missile strike on behalf of the Israeli government in Gaza.
I’m sure you also believe that the far right is fully within it’s rights to kidnap senators and storm capitols?
They’ve gone far beyond that. Just this week, a team of IDF gunmen broke into a hospital and shot the place up because it hosted injured Palestinian politicians.
Hahahaha “Palestinian politicians” as if Israel isn’t fully within it’s rights to take military action against foreign militants that perpetrate terror against civilians.
Funny, because that was the exact same attitude the Russians had when they began bombing Ukraine.
There’s a 10-story tall billboard of Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands, adoring the Likud Party HQ in Tel Aviv and I can’t help but notice their friendship has lead to some enormous overlap on attitudes toward recalcitrant neighbors.
When you’ve got the Israel Defense Minister calling residents of his country “human animals” and Israeli assassins shooting up hospitals and a the Israeli air force launching rocket strikes aimed on ambulances, its abundantly clear who the terrorists are.
