Gae Bolga Wrote:The producers economic freedom to export to us, and our ability to pay more for an item than the locals, means that the locals...who work in the fields themselves and often do have at least some money to pay for food..get to watch food shipped out.So, do you think that when I, as a relatively rich Croatian, buy myself MacBook Air, I am hurting the poor Americans who can't afford to buy it? I am giving money to the rich people in America then, and that money hopefully then trickles down to the poor Americans. And the same is true when you buy food from the poor country where there are many starving people.
Gae Bolga Wrote:The guy selling grass fed beef can better compete with the american consumer for food, and that's why he's starving, ultimately.Well, if you don't have money to buy yourself food, chances are, you also can't afford to get a cow. And even if you do get a cow, that cow will, in all likelihood, get ill from poor nutrition. Do you think you'll be able to afford veterinary care for it?
Gae Bolga Wrote:Doing so strengthened some of his convictions, disabused him of others, and created new ones he hadn't considered before.Well, don't you think you may be doing it the wrong way? I mean, why do you trust those who tell you stuff that contradicts what you've been told in biology classes in high-school? That is, why do you trust those who tell you CO2 poisoning is painless and that beheading isn't painless?
