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Re:Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients ru... by chrisco255 on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:48PM (#41583151)
They can buy whatever they want from China and most of the "global south" our sanctions are not followed by them. They are on some of the most fertile ground on planet earth. It's just late stage communism doing its thing.
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Re:Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients ru... by alamortsubite on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:54PM (#41583240)
> They are on some of the most fertile ground on planet earth.

Wheat simply does not grow in the tropics (though as I pointed out elsewhere, the Brasilians are developing this).

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Re:Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients ru... by chrisco255 on Monday September 23, 2024 @09:02PM (#41632136)
Wheat is not an essential thing. It is useful in cold/temperate climates because it grows there and has an extremely long shelf life. But in the tropics you have fruits and vegetables growing year round including alternative carb sources like bananas, yucca, sugarcane, avocadoes, mangos, rice, etc.
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