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A study found that there is a significant decline of the nutrient content in 43 different crops between 1950 and 1999 (web.archive.org)

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[–] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 months ago

USSR was founded in 1917 and based on my rough count it looks like majority of the famines in time period were conducted by communists regimes.

This seems like a what aboutism. I am not going to disagree that capitalist regimes didn't cause famines for funsies like like commies did but recent time frame comparisons show communist did do it more frequently.

Especially once you account for the fact that have been very few comminist regimes, and they all of that that came to lower via a "revolution" ie brute force used famine as tactic to pacify the peasants.