I like meat - am I a tyrant?

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There is more than enough food in the world. Entire parts of Ghana which were used for growing crops are now left unused because the EU mass exports its products to Africa, calling it 'humanitarian aid' when they feel particulary evil. Local farmers can't grow crops or breed lifestock at the prices we are dumping food there. So they stop growing crops and move to the city where they can get food for practically nothing, which of course, undermines their entire economy since they aren't actually producing anything anymore.

Inside the EU, thousands of tons of food is destroyed because of the 'high demands' of the consumer. I know people working in the docks where the fruit arrives, they fill entire warehouses with damaged boxes, the food is most often still perfectly fine. Al that food is just destroyed, they are even forbidden to take anthing for themselves. Even if food makes it to the big local suppliers, they select based on appearance and various other criteria, destroying a whole bunch of 'unfit' food. Then it gets moved to supermarkets, who might also just select the best fruit and leave the rest to rot. Of course, if the food isn't sold and has been out there for a couple of days, it just gets thrown away because it's 'too old' to sell.

Now that's just fruit, consider milk, milk from Denmark and the Netherlands is exported all over Europe, and to Africa and Costa Rica (as powder iirc) competing with local producers. If the EU were to allow a growth hormone used in the US (and perfectly harmless according to most) they could produce FOUR TIMES that amount of milk, witht he same resources.

Similar results can be had with genetically modified crops. Which is probably why we don't allow them.