Food shortage coming?

@athousandyoung said
Whenever the US tries to feed the 3rd World the people over there get upset because our food is driving local food producers out of business. It’s not as simple as that.

The US and West are are sending food to them because they are STARVING.
Then they get mad because their farmers are being put out of business?
If their farmers were growing enough food it wouldn't have been a problem in the first place.
Give them food, FREE....and they get mad.
Don't give them food....
AND THEY GET MAD, along with the rest of the liberal world because the West is being selfish and stuff according to them.
What do you suggest?

@jj-adams said
The US and West are are sending food to them because they are STARVING.
Then they get mad because their farmers are being put out of business?
If their farmers were growing enough food it wouldn't have been a problem in the first place.
Give them food, FREE....and they get mad.
Don't give them food....
AND THEY GET MAD, along with the rest of the liberal world because the West is being selfish and stuff according to them.
What do you suggest?

Solving that problem is a combination of long term military occupation combined with high taxes on the wealthiest in order to get the starving people healthy and productive. Ideally this is done by the country’s own army in the service of a republican democratic government. Corruption should be weeded out by police and an FBI type organization.

I on no way intend to suggest the USA should do this but it’s what needs to happen.

One small improvement to just sending them food is to use our aid money to buy the food in local markets instead of channeling the money through American Big Agriculture.

Much like their counterparts in the tech sector, many of the largest food and agriculture corporations have acquired their way to dominance by gobbling up rival businesses. This has occurred across the food system, including digital farming startups, biotechnology firms, food manufacturers, flour millers, farm machinery manufacturers and grocery store chains. But nowhere has it been more pronounced than agricultural inputs.

In acquiring competitors both small and large, the six biggest agricultural biotechnology firms collapsed rapidly into the Big Three — Bayer, DuPont and ChemChina. This wave of consolidation, which was met with little resistance from antitrust authorities, gave these corporations control of proprietary, multi-level systems of traits, seeds, agrochemicals and digital technology that limit farmers’ choices and lock them into limited cropping systems.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/antitrust-break-up-big-food-monopolies/