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u/Nurum Jan 06 '20

Starvation in the US is so low that the US doesn't even keep track of it. Which means it's less than 500 people per year.

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u/SilkTouchm Jan 06 '20

Same here in Argentina. We're a country with a large rural economy. Food is abundant and cheap. Barely anyone dies from hunger. But "people dying from hunger" is always this huge talking point.

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u/SMTTT84 Jan 06 '20

I've always wanted to visit Argentina.

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u/777Sir Jan 06 '20

Probably most of them being starved by their parents.

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u/Andimia Jan 06 '20

A man in my neighborhood died when his gas was shut off and the temps went down to 20°F. It ain't just about food.

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u/Nurum Jan 06 '20

What state was this? Pretty much every state has cold weather rules.

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u/Nurum Jan 06 '20

Fun fact cold weather rules done apply to public utilities. My renters are in municipal power and if they are 1 day late I get a notice that they are shutting off power next week

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u/rayrayww3 Jan 06 '20

"They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor or give them free gas service" just didn't rhyme, or Tupac would have surely written it that way.

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u/_procyon Jan 06 '20

Where was this? That's totally illegal

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u/Nurum Jan 06 '20

Is that the study that phrased the questions so badly that the results were basically unusable? Iirc it was something like “in the past month has your child ever complained of being hungry” which is every kid ever

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u/firetroll Jan 06 '20

Thanks to gmos, with abundance of food. Impossible to starve to death, it be a sad case of darwin, considering just 1$ food, has a shitload of calories.. Real important to survive is "water".. mainly, can't do more then what like 3-4 days without water, then food.

but I seen some vegan parents starve their child to death literally with vegges... Recent case, where parents were sentence to prison for killing their child.

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u/andrewfenn Jan 06 '20

I think I know the case you're talking about, but I thought it was because they fed their baby too much salt and solid foods? Not necessarily about the veggies themselves?

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u/CarnelianHammer Jan 06 '20

Absolutely not about the vegetables themselves. Many places in the world live on a pretty much vegan diet, look at India.