• plyth@feddit.org
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    14 days ago

    If you offer to buy the food I am sure they will sell. People starve because they can’t offer money.

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      14 days ago

      That would be true in a free market but the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy actually incentivises over-production (it’s supposed to protect rural lifestyles). Dumping food abroad (i.e. at below market prices) then disincentivises domestic production there. It’s long overdue reform.