Nothing illustrates the structural and systematic insanity of late capitalism like the idea that a giant pile of perfectly good food is some kind of complex economic and moral quandary. Fucking give it to people! https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1246139221414461441
To clarify, I know this isn’t the first time in history food rotted in warehouses while people starved.

We happen to be in a moment where flights are canceled, planes are grounded, roads and hotels are empty, and oil is dirt cheap. It’s possible, not just abstractly Good.
Muting this now, but while you’re here arguing about potatoes please donate to this emergency coronavirus fund for migrant farm workers. They‘re the reason there’s still produce in US supermarkets. https://hipgive.org/project/farmworkers-covid-19-pandemic-relief-fund/
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