I read that the other day, and I thought it was bollocks.
Then I realised peta responded saying it was bollocks, so now I totally agree with the article 100%!!!
(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:09, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

You'd rather go naked than support PETA?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:11, Reply)

I'm going to have a vege pasta dish tonight but because peta exist, I'm going to follow it up by throwing rocks at birds.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:14, Reply)

hahaha!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:14, Reply)

And thus the universal balance is restored.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:24, Reply)

is it bollocks?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:14, Reply)

No, that's Tesco Value meatballs

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:15, Reply)

I really don't get the problem.
This thing that this poor country makes is now worth 3 times as much and is being exported on an enourmous scale.

That's great, brilliant, saying quinoa farmers are now worse of because of that... stupid.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:18, Reply)

The response seems reasonable to me
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/22/quinoa-bolivian-farmers-meat-eaters-hunger
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:20, Reply)

yeah,
as i said, i'm fairly sure sometimes the guardian likes publish stuff just for the sake of the debate.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:35, Reply)

They're just bored at work like the rest of us and like a good argument.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:38, Reply)

do journalists go in to an office to do their stuff?
or are they just sat at home, surfing the web, and occasionally writing an article about not much in particular?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:42, Reply)

Both, I think.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:45, Reply)

I haven't read the article
But isn't there a point that a lot of third world farmers export more than they need to keep to feed their own countrymen?

They make more money from foreigners, so fuck next door if they're gonna starve
(quintsy, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:21, Reply)

If you can grow say Coffee on a field and that'll make you $1000 a year,
and grain you'll only get $350 a year, it's better to grow the coffee and import the grain. Not only for yourself but for the whole countries economy. It's globalisation.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:25, Reply)

but if the country's too poor to import grain because wealthier countries are buying it all?

(quintsy, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:32, Reply)

The wealthy countries can't get rid of grain quick enough, and they subsidise it a lot.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:44, Reply)

well that's not what I heard
And the guy I heard it from had dreadlocks and a beard, so you know he was telling the truth
(quintsy, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 17:11, Reply)

I'm certain all the little farmers and workers who are growing it get three times the money too

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 15:25, Reply)