It’s interesting how much people simply don’t understand distribution at scale. News: Massive pile of food commodity needs to be destroyed Them: Why can’t they just donate it to the needy and hungry? Me: Uhhh, where do I begin?
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It’s not rocket science. Moving 60k pigs from Tennessee or a mountain of potatoes in Idaho to wherever the masses of hungry people are takes so many tricks/trains etc. It’s just mass/volume and distance/fuel type arithmetic problems. Moral arithmetic is blind to logistics
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governments exist to help manage this sort of logistics. when they functionally exist.
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Let the governors handle it. They should have their own stockpiles of trucks and trains and refrigerated warehouses. Ours are for us, the people who don’t live in states.
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