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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago

The United States Institute of Peace: "Poppy has been replaced by wheat, a low-value crop, boding ill for the economy, poverty and the ban’s future". 🤡

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The United States Institute of Peace: "Poppy has been replaced by wheat, a low-value crop, boding ill for the economy, poverty and the ban’s future". 🤡

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  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Low-value crop like wheat

    Normal people call it “food”.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Well I don’t make money off of Afghans not starving now do I?

    • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml
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      There’s not a lot of money in food though…you can have an oil well or a drug farm.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    good god, I could not make it beyond one of the first bullet points. basically, one of them implied that the ban on poppies will not improve rural poverty.

    because everybody knows how rich rural communities get when the land there is used to grow crops with high value exclusively for export market channels controlled by cartels, gangsters, corrupt institutions, and powerful multinationals.

    the PhD that wrote this should get kicked in the mouth every morning for a month.

    • Tom742 [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      the PhD that wrote this should get kicked in the mouth every morning for a month

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    Illegal drug production is down to be replaced with growing food…

    … but at what cost!

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    “institute of peace” confirmed CIA front

    • Grapho@lemmy.ml
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      If it has peace or freedom in the name, it’s probably a front

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Completely imperialism brained to the point they ignore the value of growing food cause it has a lesser export value. You should be growing poppies to sell to drug dealers and then using that money to buy food that was farmed somewhere else, just growing food and eating it has become alien to these ghouls.

  • GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Gotham’s economy has plummeted since the Batman banned the Penguin from growing Bliss.

  • dkr567 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    There is a reason for the massive increase of opioid use in both Canada and US during amerikkka 's occupation of Afghanistan after all.

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    Such a great article to share with libs to help them see what their economic ideology leads to.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    There really are Demons in this world

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    Funny, I can’t find one use of the word ‘sanctions’ in the post.

    Conversely the near famine in 2022 was averted by Afghanistan skirting the OFAC via something called the hawala system: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07393148.2024.2339127

    Maybe if the people writing and falling for this article care about the Afghan population they should push for an end to the sanctions.

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    Maybe people wouldn’t need to grow more food if it was equitably distributed, instead of thrown away?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      It’s always depressing to think about the sheer volume of food we throw away in the west. Especially considering that some of the critical fertilizer ingredients, such as phosphorus, are in finite supply. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/what-phosphorus-and-why-are-concerns-mounting-about-its-environmental-impact

  • Siobhan [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    Won’t someone please think of drug dealer’s children!

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    Excuse my fedposting, but god damn, such people like this need to be

    hamas-red-triangle

    libbing-out

    If I weren’t with other people like you, laughing at this shit, I’d be fuckin-deserve

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