The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation - eviltoast

The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a “doom loop” for the world’s poorest people, as staple food prices soar.

    • Spzi@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Except the people who prefer to pay less for their goods and services. They depend on people willing / forced to work for very little; they need the poor.

      Also this is not a business where you could hire and fire people based on what is ‘needed’, and you’re not the boss.

      These are humans with exactly the same right to food as you.