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The other thing of course to remember is just shipping food out of the US and into the developing world is how you break local farming economies. Who wants to buy food from the local farmer when there's ample free food from relief programs.

Development is hard.

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>Development is hard.

It really is. That's what Lothrop Stoddard called 'The Burden Of Civilization'. Essentially, this is to say that, in as much as civilization can be a good thing, it is also very difficult to attain and sustain; some people are willing to push themselves as hard as they can to do this and some people just aren't equipped to handle civilization.

Most of the food wasted is "ugly" food. It's not putting farmers out of business. It could keep starving people alive though.

Which completely misses the point. To summarize what the parent is suggesting:

"Teach a man to fish..."

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