China seeks food security, but at what cost?
China seeks food security, but at what cost?
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Chinese farmers are just yearning for the opportunity to grow bananas for the United Fruit Company.
In East Germany, no banana.
In Venezuela, only banana.
In Glorious People's Republic of Walmart, choose any food you want and one of our child slaves will be by shortly to bring it to you.
And it doesn't even pay off, because you a very limited selection of flavorless fruits and veg because they've been bred solely to be stable for transport.
It's very "They have all this stuff but they don't even enjoy it!"
Like endless misery to deliver mediocre produce.
Idk, I don't know if that makes it worse, but it does feel more perverse somehow. Like in stories you expect the baddies to cause vast misery and suffering to procure the best, most exotic, most delicious luxuries, not bland bananas with barely any flavor or shitty mangoes that are almost all pit and taste vaguely of soap.
Like endless misery to deliver mediocre produce.
I mean, I think this would be somewhat overstated if not for the fact that everything is so crazy expensive.
Like in stories you expect the baddies to cause vast misery and suffering to procure the best, most exotic, most delicious luxuries, not bland bananas with barely any flavor or shitty mangoes that are almost all pit and taste vaguely of soap.
There's plenty of high end food available in trendier and more upscale corners of the country. It isn't as though grocery store mangos are the only mangos.
Imperialism with a smile and a pat on the head, that is all the capitalists bring