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This is just another daily reminder of this quote ....
"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich"
I remember reading years ago as well that there is more than enough food and water to make every living human comfortable and fed .... Africa alone could be able to self sustain itself by producing its own food and providing clean water for every person the continent if all its resources and services were organized in the most efficient way - instead the finances of African nations is organized in such a way that they spend more on paying for debts and selling all their resources to first world nations.
In this day in age, with the amount of knowledge, technology and ability we have on the planet .... every living human should have proper drinking water and they should have all the food they need ... there should be no excuse for anyone any where to be starving or lacking water.
The fact that there are starving people in the world means that we all accept a world where thousands and even millions go without.
I heard that the whole tomato throw thing in Spain was held mostly for keeping prices up, and in fact most grape producing countries did also entertain grape dumping on good years.
When I asked an economics major, he told me that while charity is great and all, the costs of logistics (especially when it isn't end to end) is more costly than just buying it straight at the market.
So we're just dumping the food.
It's not true, the Tomatina started small and grew over the years after becoming popular.
I don't know if other countries have what we call "fiestas del pueblo", local festivities. Every town have their own around their patron saint, they usually last around a week depending how big is the town, during those festivities is where you find all sorts weird traditions like that.
I think we can also ask why are transport costs so high? Isn't it the case that those same companies say there isn't demand so cost is high?
It sounds like a catch 22 to me
Not enough water, especially now that global warming is starting to show. Much of our water comes from aquifers. Once drained, they're not refilling for hundreds or thousands of years.
Yeah, we could be smarter, more efficient with distribution, but we can't sustain 100's of millions living in deserts and semi-arid lands.
I'll allow that South America and Africa could likely be OK on water, don't know anything about them and haven't heard of a single issue on either continent. Well, except for Amazon water levels getting historically low.