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It took a once in a century flood, the collapse of the USSR, and sanctions for DPRK to reach those numbers. The US achieved that while still having food to spare, what an amazing system.
Let me add in the following about my country, Norway, whose material conditions I know all to well: There is way too much wealth disparity and rising poverty, but this infographic does not reflect a material shortage of food, of which there is on the other hand an over-abundance of to the detriment of the global south. Recall that we produce food for a billion more people than what exists, yet a billion starve due to the global north’s over-indulgence and waste.
The main reasons for the rise in death to malnutrition are eating disorders such as anorexia. This reflects a wholly different contradiction which we should focus on instead of misrepresenting material reality.
EDIT: After some reading it seems the rise is due to a change in the policy of journalling deaths. These are probably old people not eating enough because they are in the process of dying. The important bit with regards to where starvation actually causes death, and not merely corrolates with it, remains true.
Capitalism no food
Is this how they keep the shelves full?
In the USSR they always said they had lots of money but they couldn’t buy anything with it because the shelves were empty.
After WWII, soviet caloric intake was higher than the U.S.
Great, but ittelevant to any point I was making. I must have stepped.into the ideologically frail part of Lemmy.
Explain how, exactly, the response was irrelevant to your point. After all, your ideology is strong and infallible.
You must have the answer, right?
Explain how, exactly, the response was irrelevant to your point. After all, your ideology is strong and infallible.
What ideology?
It’s irrelevant because it doesn’t attack the point I made. Both things can be true at the same time.
It’s not irrelevant, the idea that “communism is when no food” is wrong because they ended famine in a region where that was common.
You’re looking too hard for an argument where there never needed to be one.
I mean, if a post says that the US has higher rates of starvation than socialist countries, someone jokingly references the “communism is when no food trope,” then you respond by suggesting there may be some truth to that, I don’t think it’s an “argument” to point out that socialist countries did achieve food security better than capitalist countries.
Take off the blinkers.
Estimated death rate from protein-energy malnutrition per 100,000 people.
Estimated…
Do you dispute how these rates were calculated and the sources used for them?
It’s true, the numbers for the US regime are likely grossly undercounted just as they were for COVID https://gizmodo.com/updated-death-toll-shows-the-us-grossly-undercounted-covid-deaths-early-on-2000734587
