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[–] blurg@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It's tricky to talk about hardly anything in a forum where you can't say "it's more than that."

When it comes to food, a growing portion of humans are hungry or headed toward hunger. It's not the only concern, water, food, shelter, all the basic Maslow's necessities are getting harder to come by. Harder each month. There's plenty of other concerns: corporate, government, education, and even scientific corruption, greedy billionaires; which are each and together still only part of the problem. The problems are systemic, and that right there is why you can't talk about any one thing without recognizing there's so much more. Calling it "tinfoily" is dismissing how immediately vital food prices and availability are, even while there are many other important issues. And the way the media selects and times articles is another one of those.