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Lawson now sells old rice as “vintage” onigiri in Japan (soranews24.com)

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

so why exactly doesn't the government just buy the excess rice from the farmers instead of paying them to not grow? it's rice, it's not difficult to store basically forever, and they clearly do have stockpiles to dip into..

just build a bunch of huge silos and enjoy never ever having to worry about a food shortage, and local farmers being able to grow precisely as much rice as makes sense for them.