Famine is the inability to afford food, not in itself a shortage of food. If the money is there to buy the food in any particular place, then traders will usually find ways of getting the food to that market.
So when there are food shortages, then the prices rise and so the food is diverted to those that can still afford it.
Some will remember the famous Bob Geldof Live Aid concert in 1985 to raise money for the massive famine in Ethiopia. What most don't realise is throughout that famine, Ethiopia continued to be a net exporter of food. But local people couldn't afford to buy it and foreigners could.
The same can happen, and probably already happens in America. If you live in a poor neighbourhood, your local supermarket won't have as much selection as in a richer neighbourhood. If there are food shortages and prices rise, and your locals can't afford so much, then your supermarket chain will redirect produce to those supermarkets that can sell it for the higher price! Obviously!
So it is easy to see a situation where local supermarkets in poor places will have empty shelves first, and chains may even close them because they can't sell enough to make a profit. Once the box supermarket goes, then many American towns have no food supplier. What then?
You're acting like this will be a localized phenomenon. It may well be true when one region is having issue but when every breadbasket is suffering crop shortages, at a certain point money cannot magically conjure food from the aether
If there is a crop 'failure', that is almost always just a shortage, a 10% or 20% drop, rarely no crop at all. That means the farmers and traders will sell the remaining crop to the highest bidder first, and so on down the line. The poorest can't afford any so that becomes a famine.
So yes, a local phenomenon, famine in the poorest places.
In many countries in the past, the ultimate status symbol for a man was a fat wife! So much so that it might make the husband into a 'desirable' target for young women hoping to replace the older wife, or at least become the husband's mistress!
You are missing the forest for the trees. You are advising a wildfire be put out by putting a lid on the pan. You are painfully missing the point. If you can't handle having that pointed out, maybe you'd be better off sticking with crosswords.
Famine is the inability to afford food, not in itself a shortage of food. If the money is there to buy the food in any particular place, then traders will usually find ways of getting the food to that market.
So when there are food shortages, then the prices rise and so the food is diverted to those that can still afford it.
Some will remember the famous Bob Geldof Live Aid concert in 1985 to raise money for the massive famine in Ethiopia. What most don't realise is throughout that famine, Ethiopia continued to be a net exporter of food. But local people couldn't afford to buy it and foreigners could.
The same can happen, and probably already happens in America. If you live in a poor neighbourhood, your local supermarket won't have as much selection as in a richer neighbourhood. If there are food shortages and prices rise, and your locals can't afford so much, then your supermarket chain will redirect produce to those supermarkets that can sell it for the higher price! Obviously!
So it is easy to see a situation where local supermarkets in poor places will have empty shelves first, and chains may even close them because they can't sell enough to make a profit. Once the box supermarket goes, then many American towns have no food supplier. What then?
You're acting like this will be a localized phenomenon. It may well be true when one region is having issue but when every breadbasket is suffering crop shortages, at a certain point money cannot magically conjure food from the aether
If there is a crop 'failure', that is almost always just a shortage, a 10% or 20% drop, rarely no crop at all. That means the farmers and traders will sell the remaining crop to the highest bidder first, and so on down the line. The poorest can't afford any so that becomes a famine.
So yes, a local phenomenon, famine in the poorest places.
In many countries in the past, the ultimate status symbol for a man was a fat wife! So much so that it might make the husband into a 'desirable' target for young women hoping to replace the older wife, or at least become the husband's mistress!
Access to food is the ultimate security.
I'm sure the knowledge that a crop failure could also be called a crop shortage is of great comfort to those starving to death
And your point is....?
I am trying to explain the reality of how something works, or doesn't work. You seem to want to blame someone, even me, for trying to inform you.
If you can't handle facts, maybe you'd be better off sticking with the puppy videos.
You are missing the forest for the trees. You are advising a wildfire be put out by putting a lid on the pan. You are painfully missing the point. If you can't handle having that pointed out, maybe you'd be better off sticking with crosswords.
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