Doctors in our part of Canada are seeing a dramatic rise in scurvy. Fucking survey. Capitalism is awesome...
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
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This is so sad
The effect of malnutrition can be obesity. Malnutrition does not imply a shortage of food. I would rather say that capitalism causes inequality, mainly income inequality but also wealth, among others. This causes unhealthy eating patterns.
It is cheaper to eat unhealthy than healthy in most countries that have no food scarcity, which means that much of the working class basically eats the scraps of the rich. As an additional consequence of the capitalist mode of (over)production, there are in the same countries a lot of eating disorders, in big part due to the pressure of commercial advertisements.
We would never dare to trample those god fearin' Americans freedom to starve to death. Gobbless Amurica!
Don't go looking one year further in the past though in that NK graph. Top notch cropping.
Also I checked out France and the UK. Why are people in France going hungry while no one is starving in the UK? Very odd.
You mean when there was a famine caused by the US sanctions which are a modern form of siege warfare? DPRK lost its main trading partner when USSR dissolved, and the US choked their ability to trade with other countries. Wow what an amazing gotcha you got there.
Well wouldn't you agree that is still fishy of you to pick the year exactly after the famine? According to your logic that famine was still caused by capitalism anyways.
Odd that Russia and China couldn't provide enough food. Or at least not the entire time. Seems like complex reasons for that, but sanctions certainly can't have been the reason for that.
No, I don't think there's anything fishy about picking the past two decades. Meanwhile, there's nothing odd about the fact that Russia and China who were very weak in the 90s didn't want to anger the US and become victims themselves. I personally lived through post USSR years in Russia, and it was already hell.