Re:European bird populations decrease by a quarter, farming ...
by runsWphotons on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @06:06AM
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But wouldnt it lower the price of chicken in those places, providing more people w access to good calories although hurting the local farmers? Couldnt this be solved by a country putting up tariffs or banning importing such chicken? If they didn't do that what was their reason?
Re:European bird populations decrease by a quarter, farming ...
by hef19898 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @06:21AM
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Why didn't they put tariffs in place? Well, how many governments, and people in power, did you ever hear of that worried about the poor and common folks? There are a lot of people profitting from these things, including the social conciousness of us in the developed world. And those interests, combined with a ton of money and close to no oversight, result in a system that just doesn't care about what happens to the average people.
Quite the opposite, exporting said surplus, besides accite deliveries to mitigate fine, can kill local farming. There is no way small, just a bit above subsistance farming can compete with the surplus of industrial farming in, e.g., Europe. Take chicken for example, in Europe we prefer chicken breasts and legs, the wings are a far, far third place. As a result, a lot ofbthe chicken left overs, legs, wings and so in, didn't have a market in Europe. It got expoeted to Africa, with a purchasing price of close to nothing since the meat sold in Europe already covered costs, overhead and profits. With shipping being close to nothing per chicken wing, the imported food was way cheaper than locally produced food, driving a bunch of local farmers out of busimess and into poverty. And reducing local food production, increasing the risk of local famine while increasing dependency on global food markets (not really a good thing neither....).
Same principle applies for donated clothes, only now local tailors, often women, are affected.
So no, cutting back on industrial over production is by no means taking part in genocide (!) (you couldn't aim lower than that, could you?).