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ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml to videos@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

China just created a super crop that could end world hunger.

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China just created a super crop that could end world hunger.

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ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml to videos@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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China’s New Super Rice: The Key to Ending World Hunger? 🌾 Incredible Agricultural Breakthrough China has just unveiled a revolutionary super rice that promi...
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  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    People aren’t hungry because there isn’t enough food. Food corporations throw out a ton of food.

    Capitalism is what is starving people

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      World hunger is not just about food waste but also unequal distribution on an international scale. When China develops a rice variety that grows in salty marshes or Brazil develops a soy variety that grows in savannah conditions, you give countries in the Global South the opportunity to grow food not only locally but much more productively. At that point the problem becomes a matter of solving the underlying issues with international financing, which is one of the things Michael Hudson is talking about.

      This rice variety seems like a godsend even in a liberal capitalist hole like Brazil.

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        I see, that makes a lot of sense

    • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      I know, that’s just the title of the video.

    • Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I agree, but you need the potato to have a potato famine (read: British occupation exporting food like they did in India and other countries while the people starve)

  • JillOfAllTrades [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Death to clickbait.

    Especially in video form where you can’t easily skim.

    The internet is not a good experience no more.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      The worst is when they do it with critical safety info

      “The FDA just issued a safety recall on this common food item”

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        CDC: One Neat Trick to Not Die; Funeral Directors Hate Him

        it’s incredible how purchased ads trying to aesthetically appear like headlines have had such a dramatic impact on the crafting of editorial headlines.

        it’s almost like the NEWS under capitalism was always going to suck as the distinction between its press and advertising/marketing are functionally the same.

        • Tom742 [any]@hexbear.net
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          I know it’s reddit, so who really cares, but I get a good chuckle seeing the “promoted posts” (ads) that are something like

          TIL that geico has supreme insurance and I could be saving hundreds of dollars a year

          but with all the comments turned off to prevent any sort of natural engagement.

          It’s interesting how advertising co-opts any culture around it

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Should go to actual jail for this kind.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    But at what cost 😔

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      The US will no longer be able to dump cheap agricultural goods on developing countries thus undermining their food security and making them reliant on the exports of empire.

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    Will take a lot more than a crop to end world hunger

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      It’ll be a good start. The most important thing though will definitely be overthrowing the evil empire which disincentivizes and works to prevent agricultural self-sufficiency across the global south (Prof. Michael Hudson has a great talk on this and more), which uses illegal sanctions and destabilization (like in Syria where they openly state the prime agricultural and oil-producing regions are specifically targeted for occupation) to manufacture famines, and which threatens the shipping lanes of the entire globe.

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        I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

        • yewtu.be
        • inv.nadeko.net
        • yt.artemislena.eu
        • piped.video
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    BUT

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      AT

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        WHAT

        • asante [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          COST

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    …which is why we need to preemptively nuke china

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    Doubling the yield is super pog especially with the coming climate crisis.

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    Its too bad topsoil degradation is accelarating. Something like this could have bought some time.

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    World hunger is a logistical problem

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    “the University of Queensland in the USA”

    Yes the US loves to name things after their queen. Hope the rest of the stuff in the video isn’t as inaccurate.

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    china created a supercock that could end world horny?!?

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    Removed by mod

  • HexReplyBot [none/use name]@hexbear.netB
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    I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

    • yewtu.be
    • inv.nadeko.net
    • yt.artemislena.eu
    • piped.video

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