why are we dumping potatoes in the pacific ocean when there are a lot of poor people who are starving?

why are we dumping potatoes in the pacific ocean when there are a lot of poor people in the world who are dying for hunger?

well because the world is full of fucked up people.

We are? (dumping potatoes, I mean, not poor and dying of hunger)

Wow, that's sad... Maybe those potatoes weren't fit to eat. Can you add more facts about this (ongoing) activity?

To make the fish bigger, so the hungry can fish, because if you teach a man to fish...

'Cause it's a loss of money. Works like this:

a) if you just give away so many potatoes, the prise of potatoes will go down since it's cheaper to get them for free if you wait for what doesn't get to the supermarkets

b) if you give them away (dump them at low prices) to the people in the countries where they are starving, the local potato-sellers lose their businesses and their countries are worse off

don't ask me, it's completely complicated

The same reason the US pays farmers not to farm. It's a screwed up world.

Shining Star has already given this reason, but I thought I might try to clarify. Basically if you dump a load of free food on a country then the people won't work because it is easier just to accept the food. This loss of work will ruin the countries economy, increasing its dependence on foreign aid. This is not to say their aren't situations where you should give away food, it is just that it is better to use a good education program rather than just dumping your surplus in poor countries as a way of helping them.

Who are you really helping by feeding the whole world? What if everyone in the whole world gets potatoes? When people have food and a home, they reproduce. so now, the world population has now doubled, and you now have double the mouths to feed. If you're truely interested in the food race and the fate of the world, read Ishmael by Danniel Quinn. He has some great points in his book, you'd like it.

because we don't care about our fellow men and women and children unless they're from another country, we only like to help them isn't it a shame?

Sponge Bob ordered them so that he could have fries with his Crabby Patties.