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In reply to the discussion: Chef Andres: People of America! I want to talk about two photos [View all]mahatmakanejeeves
(57,446 posts)2. "How is it possible these two photos exist at the same time?"
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. {It's playing on my iPod at this moment.}
How is it possible these two photos exist at the same time, in the most prosperous and technologically advanced moment in our history? Its because all along the way, we have a food supply chain that we treat as invisible when its working...and only notice it when its not. 4/
Link to tweet
You wouldn't have to go any farther than Boise to find hunger.
Make that Twin Falls.
I don't know anything about potato farming. I assume that potatoes will keep a long time in cold storage, but first you have to get the potatoes to the cold storage facility, and second there has to be room in the cold storage facility for the potatoes.
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I bought a ten-pound bag on Saturday. I had been waiting for the price to drop, but
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2020
#40
If we had a functional government they would mobilize the military to take this food to the needy
SoonerPride
Apr 2020
#3
That's what I was thinking. My grandmother used to keep potatoes in the cold dark
Maraya1969
Apr 2020
#7
It's called CAPITALISM. If there's not somebody making a profit, then there's not
BComplex
May 2020
#84
"Our stupid useless journalists," as you call them, are very busy researching & reporting ...
Hekate
Apr 2020
#38
And at the library. Most public libraries have digital subscriptions to a few newspapers.
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2020
#41
Public libraries are an outstanding resource. My husband can read their digital subscriptions...
Hekate
Apr 2020
#43
Because late-stage capitalism eliminates the inefficiencies and redundancies that would provide
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2020
#5
Late-state capitalism - just before the permanent gangrene sets in and destroys the whole body.
erronis
Apr 2020
#24
And yet they're starving. And out of gas. They're certainly not a Capitalist country either.
oldsoftie
Apr 2020
#47
Why are all the potatoes at the store always gone then? when they are there that are tiny...
mikelgb
Apr 2020
#17
From what I understand, most potatoes are sold to fast-food chains already cut/frozen in huge bags.
erronis
Apr 2020
#28
It is a parking lot. In the Mother JOnes story, the caption to the picture
yellowdogintexas
May 2020
#75
Meanwhile in San Antonio the Applebees where my son has worked for the past 11 yrs
SammyWinstonJack
Apr 2020
#26
If we had a real leader they would have ordered this food picked up by military ry and distributed
kimbutgar
Apr 2020
#42
we need to get the army into moving crops, screw fancy packaging. boxes will do. move crops to
pansypoo53219
Apr 2020
#50