Famine isn’t about a lack of food, it’s about poor lines of distribution and deliberate neglect & deprivation. Don’t let anyone ever lie and tell you that famine is natural disaster: drought is arguably natural (though exacerbated by man-made climate change), famine is not. https://twitter.com/idahomolly/status/1253138993811619841

In my opinion, Mike Davis’ “Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World” does a really sharp job connecting how the weather patterns producing drought were catastrophically exacerbated by the policies of ruling classes.

We’ve seen unprecedented queues for food pantries that’re running out of resources and never before seen numbers of people registered for unemployment. The government *could* coordinate state responses to have stockpiles of food transported to distribution sites, but it doesn’t.

The surplus of food is literally being destroyed because “demand is low” and at the same time poor people *in this country* are literally afraid of starving. Manufactured death. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/20/if-coronavirus-doesnt-get-us-starvation-will-growing-number-americans-say-they-cant-afford-stock-up-groceries/%3foutputType=amp