Posted on 09/06/2020 8:05:06 PM PDT by blam
China recently launched the “Clean Plate Campaign,” which targets people wasting food, as speculation of a worldwide food shortage mounts.
President Xi Jinping has pushed new measures to curb food waste following the virus pandemic, calling those who live stream their eating experiences on social media as “shocking and distressing.”
Too strict or not strict enough? A recent @CNN article says the “authoritarian” China wants to control what people eat with its new “clean plate” campaign, but also suggests the campaign isn’t specific enough. It’s too confusing! Seems like China can do no right! pic.twitter.com/RRDZLmFo98
— LIU Xin (@LiuXininBeijing) September 4, 2020
Jinping said China had to “maintain a sense of crisis about food security” amid the virus pandemic. The warning comes as the world’s second-largest economy could soon face food shortages. Besides the virus-induced economic downturn disrupting food supply chains, there’s been droughts, floods, and pests that are likely to result in poor harvests this year.
Chinese state news agency, the Global Times, downplayed the notion China is headed for a food crisis. Some restaurants in China have limited the number of dishes served to diners, while others have weighed customers before ordering.
Estimates show China wastes enough food to feed 30 to 50 million people per year, according to a study published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the World Wildlife Fund in China. The government’s abrupt crackdown on food waste suggests a shortage could be nearing:
But the campaign [Clean Plate Campaign] has raised speculation China could be facing a food shortage, although state media outlets were quick to try and stop the panic of imminent food shortages, reporting that China had recently seen consecutive bumper grain harvests and record high grain output.
As living standards have raised, so has consumption. Obesity levels have soared...
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When you can't provide enough food for your population, it does come down to "butter and guns",
or some type of colonial conquest (physical, economic) of other nations to increase the availability of resources.
This was demonstrated by Japan's involvement in WWII - an expansion for resources.
China is doing this colonial expansion by expanding its naval satellites in the China sea, expanding its "sphere of influence ",
and economic coercion of smaller nations thru economic and infrastructure construction loans to third-world countries
when the country doesn't have enough financial resources to afford their own infrastructure construction (ie.: Somalia).
In return, China has small nations indebted to them, gains a trading partner, and/or access to a new naval port,
all part of China's "Thirty Year Plan " (long range goals).
You been to the grocery store lately?
My wife talked to the HyVee manager last week. He said he never thought he’d see anything like it. He orders 3000 items and gets 1100.
The reason BurnLootMurder wants to shut down the interstates is to stop the flow of food to the cities.
Doesn’t matter how much food you have if you can’t get it where it’s needed.
The plan is to do to us what Stalin did to the Kulaks.
Their plan won’t work, not even close.
After China reduced buying American ag products in 2019, they are now making record purchases.
Agreed, but they are paying a lot more and spending money they are not making on selling us stuff, at least not as much stuff as they were.
Sooner or later the funds dry up. And then the people get hungry.
The Chinese communist leadership is in deep trouble.
China is suffering flooding that is wiping out crop land.
They need food from us, we don’t need their crappy products.
Soon the CCP’s subjects will be starving and we have more than enough food. We are the world’s grocery store.
Unless the democrats steal the election, then America be damned.
They’ll sell all our food overseas to line their own personal pockets with kickbacks.
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