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[–] ClapYourHamsTogether 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Dear god, it's math like this that makes me loathe being as young as I am- I'll have to grow through my prime in the midst of all this shit.

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[–] pm_me_or 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

There are 800 million starving people world wide.

I don't see why this is important. Africans wouldn't eat more if Americans ate less. And personnaly, I don't watch my calories because of starving Africans, but because I want to live a healthy life and transmit the love of your body, of nature and of everything that's natural and beautiful to my children.

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[–] Mellestalfph [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I put it in just in case people wanted to know. Americans' diet would only remove ~1 in 600 starving people. We need to focus on growing things there to put any meaningful dent in Africa's nutritional problems, except it's pretty much desert over there.

Also, about 90-95% of starving people are in third-world countries. There may be a handful of starving people in your town (depending on it's size). If eating way too much food is a problem, then shouldn't eating way too little food also be a problem. Food for thought.

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[–] Sanji 1 point 4 points (+5|-1) ago 

Or we could just cut 100% of charity to Africa and let them figure it out or vanish.

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[–] pm_me_or 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The mayonnaise I don't eat doesn't magically pop in a random Subsaharian Africa village.

It doesn't work like this. Africa has largely enough land to feed itself, like it almost did in the past with SA and Rhodesia. The solution to feed the world is not for us to eat less and send food/money to those who starve (it has already been tried and never worked), the solution is for starving people to breed less and start working their land efficiently.

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[–] LawyersPlayDota 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

alternatively, we can stop sending them food and nature will get rid of starving people for us without us encouraging them to reproduce without limit.