• featured [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    This is what the US and UN do with food aid. To paraphrase Sankara, real food aid isn’t grain and millet, it’s tractors and fertilizer. Just in China’s case they’re sabotaging empire, and in the former it’s in service of it

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      A good chunk of famines happen because of the us dumping corn on local markets until local food ag collapses, then losing interest when the price of corn changes.