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Here is the problem with crop quality:
So there is basically no business pressure to have crops be nutritious.
the communist in me yearns to blame capitalism for everything, and its sort of their fault but not directly, the actual reason that nutritional content is going down is because plants are growing faster and bigger while taking a similar amount of nutrients because there is more co2 in the air, its not really about business pressures or anything to do with specific decisions being made by corporations or farmers and the difference is irrelevant anyways (for now).
yes in the west anyways, in reality capitalism is responsible for far more famines and far more severs ones and the people who are not subjected to 24/7 anti communist propaganda know it, but yes in the west people have that erroneous association.
and the Irish. do u really need me to list a bunch of famines? surely even u are capable of using google to find this Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines and then only look at the ones that happened under capitalism.