How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?

Post by blarg1 » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 3:15 AM UTC

tombh wrote: post #141

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I enjoyed having my perspective on China as a country expanded; I don't hear many positive things about it, and the environmental focus is genuinely refreshing, in stark contrast to my own country's idiocy in that department. With that said, nothing outweighs their government's human rights violations. Nothing. I know the U.S. has some of its own, but not to an extremity nor scale nor public acceptance that comes any…

The very existence of America is a human rights violation, vis-a-vis the original inhabitants and African slavery. Not to mention the multitude of similar abuses those same Europeans caused over the rest of the world. China's violations are certainly serious, but it's just not comparable to the sheer extent of the West's.

Post by Paradigma11 » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 3:19 AM UTC

tombh wrote: post #141

_bxg1 wrote: post #66

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I enjoyed having my perspective on China as a country expanded; I don't hear many positive things about it, and the environmental focus is genuinely refreshing, in stark contrast to my own country's idiocy in that department. With that said, nothing outweighs their government's human rights violations. Nothing. I know the U.S. has some of its own, but not to an extremity nor scale nor public acceptance that comes any…

The very existence of America is a human rights violation, vis-a-vis the original inhabitants and African slavery. Not to mention the multitude of similar abuses those same Europeans caused over the rest of the world. China's violations are certainly serious, but it's just not comparable to the sheer extent of the West's.

Post by nradov » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 3:30 AM UTC

FigBug wrote: post #2

The country I don't understand how they do it is Bangladesh. A country the size of New York State with 164 million people. (50% of the US population). As I understand it, they generate 90% of the food they require.

Post by wolco » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 3:33 AM UTC

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Well simple really, there are still many shitty governments out there and not much of anything that we can do about it. worse is when they get sufficient weaponry it pretty much puts them off limits for any intervention and in some cases lets them blackmail others. look at Venezuela and even North Korea, then look who supports these regimes that allow the governments of each to keep themselves in power. We cannot do…

You are probably very young if you believe that fantasy. Who is this "we" that it's so worried about the welfare of humanity? Read about the interventions of first Europe and then the USA in the global affairs. You can check how sugar, then cotton and later oil interest have shaped the world. Or even fruit (1). (1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

Post by wolco » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 3:36 AM UTC

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Japan has 50% more coastline than the United States. Where I sit, 1000km from an ocean, seafood is pretty remote. Sure, it gets flown in and flash frozen isn't horrible, but it isn't fresh.

A lot seafood is flash frozen these days, even next to the coast and even in japan. It’s just the best way to deal with parasites. I don’t think you can eat sashimi in the USA that hasn’t been flash frozen.