Posted on 04/03/2023 2:35:58 AM PDT by spirited irish
Twenty corporations in the grain, fertiliser, meat and dairy sectors delivered $53.5 billion to shareholders in the financial years 2020 and 2021. At the same time, the UN estimates that $51.5 billion would be enough to provide food, shelter and lifesaving support for the world’s 230 million most vulnerable people.
Davi Martins, campaigner at Greenpeace International, says that we are witnessing an enormous transfer of wealth to a few rich families that own the global food system. This at a time when the majority of the world population is struggling to make ends meet.
Martins says:
“These 20 companies could literally save the world’s 230 million most vulnerable people and have billions of profit left over in spare change. Paying more to shareholders of a few food corporations is just outrageous and immoral.”
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotandliberty.com ...
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. Voltaire
I still think capitalism is way better than monarchies (economy of service to nobles), socialism, or communism, for example.
Right, its corporations, not US government policies making food more expensive. Stupid ethanol requirements. US government war on fossil fuel. US spending last year, soaring to 6.6 trillion dollar causing inflation to explode.
Another demand for a transfer of wealth.
Had they not been in business, their customers would have paid even more to obtain these products. If their profits were to be confiscated, they would not stay in business.
Governments are the cause of hunger and capitalism prevents it. Transfer of wealth will result in widespread famine.
America always had a capitalistic farming system and never had the famines that subsistance farming societies (including Europe) had.
Deep State dropped the use of the word hunger after taxpayers got wise to Fedzilla’s definition.
Now it’s food insecurity.
SNORT.
Written by a Communist, why is a Marxist article on FR?
There is plenty of food in the world.
Getting more to the poorest is the issue.
To quote Greenpeace does not make the article and its writer communist anymore than quoting Marx in his denunciation of God makes an article and its writer Marxist and Godless.
Marx invented the term ‘capitalism’ because he needed a straw man. America from its founding was never ‘capitalist’ but a free economic system. .
Just look around our nation to see the destruction of our middle class in the rust belt, withering and closing down of small town America, the desolation and decay of our big cities and more due to the closing of factories, wood mills, shoe factories, cotton mills, paper mills, and so on.
Where have the jobs gone? To SA and overseas where workers are paid a pittance with the greater profit going into the pockets of greedy Big Corporatist profiteers. who have been betraying American workers no less than Democrats and Rinos have betrayed us..
This is the point made by the writer of the article.
When Trump was President he vowed to make America great again. One way was through the reopening of factories. His plan was a major threat to profiteers and we know what happened to prevent him from being re-elected.
The title is 100% Marxist class warfare .
The bellies of the rich swell on the backs of the poor.
ARE YOU SERIOUS?
It couldn’t be anymore Marxist .
That's not the point of this article. Its arguing people in the world are hungry, because of world agribusinesses.
It’s similar for the world’s biggest agribusiness corporations. They have made more in profits since 2020 than the amount that the UN estimates could cover the basic needs of the world’s most vulnerable.
How do morons become one of “da world’s most vulnerable people”? America didn’t get the way it is by pissing and moaning to the UN that they don’t have anything to eat.
Give us your money. We know better
“Paying more to shareholders of a few food corporations is just outrageous and immoral.”
No, shareholders invested their capital into that industry in exchange for the promise of future profits. There is absolutely nothing immoral about paying them their fair share of the profits once they materialize.
Or we could try more socialism, in which case I expect investors will keep their money and fields will lay fallow.
“Its arguing people in the world are hungry, because of world agribusinesses.”
People in the world were hungry long before world agribusiness existed, so that is foolishness.
bunch of damn communists.
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