Not really from China, they produce around 1.5x the rice they need per year and that’s guaranteed for the domestic market; export market rice is taxed and measured differently. That plus the pig towers really covers most the common nutritional needs. They’re also one of the richest countries on Earth and tend to import plenty of superfluent foods, which isn’t an earmark of a starving nation. Somalia isn’t importing billions of tonnes of soybeans.
Wealth inequality in China is rapidly approaching levels found in America. The bottom 50% of Chinese people collectively hold 6% of the wealth, with the top 10% holding 68% of the wealth. Which leads to some extreme regional poverty.
Does more work need to be done? Sure. But food insecurity isn’t a thing in China. Ever. You are guaranteed income, land, food, and farming supplies if you live in a rural area. Is it a lot compared to the top of the top? No, not really. But it’s infinitely better to be poor in China than in the US. Every poor rural Chinese person is either a land holder or is in the household of a land holder. Tax free as well under specific income thresh holds.
Remember they are taking a society that 35 years ago was the poorest and most populated country on Earth and have so far raised median living standards above all of their neighbors. There is of course more to go, because most of the country has yet to be industrialized. Hence the ‘Ghost Cities’
Doesn’t mean the food is reaching more rural areas, like where this dog was butchered. If an area is seeing pets being kidnapped to use as meat, that is not a good sign of food stability.
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.
Not really from China, they produce around 1.5x the rice they need per year and that’s guaranteed for the domestic market; export market rice is taxed and measured differently. That plus the pig towers really covers most the common nutritional needs. They’re also one of the richest countries on Earth and tend to import plenty of superfluent foods, which isn’t an earmark of a starving nation. Somalia isn’t importing billions of tonnes of soybeans.
Wealth inequality in China is rapidly approaching levels found in America. The bottom 50% of Chinese people collectively hold 6% of the wealth, with the top 10% holding 68% of the wealth. Which leads to some extreme regional poverty.
The regional poverty has dropped. Drastically. Unlike the US, a rising tide lifts all boats.
Does more work need to be done? Sure. But food insecurity isn’t a thing in China. Ever. You are guaranteed income, land, food, and farming supplies if you live in a rural area. Is it a lot compared to the top of the top? No, not really. But it’s infinitely better to be poor in China than in the US. Every poor rural Chinese person is either a land holder or is in the household of a land holder. Tax free as well under specific income thresh holds.
Remember they are taking a society that 35 years ago was the poorest and most populated country on Earth and have so far raised median living standards above all of their neighbors. There is of course more to go, because most of the country has yet to be industrialized. Hence the ‘Ghost Cities’
Doesn’t mean the food is reaching more rural areas, like where this dog was butchered. If an area is seeing pets being kidnapped to use as meat, that is not a good sign of food stability.
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.