Scientists identify what may have wiped out Mexico 500 years ago in mystery epidemic

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Tecumsehsbones said:
You. . . think. . . people. . . don't. . . starve. . . in. . . India. . . and. . . China.

Ohhhhhh-KAY.
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Any of you old farts (even older that me!) should remember a major starvation crisis in India in the early-mid 1960s. What happened there is that India had imported all or almost all of their rice from Southeast Asia Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and as the war there escalated, India's big food source was suddenly cut off.
 
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Starving? Not since Mao f-cked up in the late 50s. In the late 70s 30% were undernourished.

Today less than 1 in 10 Chinese are undernourished and they are selling their surpluses.

Curious Cdn said:
Any of you old farts (even older that me!) should remember a major starvation crisis in India in the early-mid 1960s. What happened there is that India had imported all or almost all of their rice from Southeast Asia Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and as the war there escalated, India's big food source was suddenly cut off.
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Really? 1 year in one State.

The last major famine was the Bengal famine of 1943. A famine occurred in the state of Bihar in December 1966 on a much smaller scale and in which "Happily, aid was at hand and there were relatively fewer deaths".
 
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Curious Cdn said:
Any of you old farts (even older that me!) should remember a major starvation crisis in India in the early-mid 1960s. What happened there is that India had imported all or almost all of their rice from Southeast Asia Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and as the war there escalated, India's big food source was suddenly cut off.
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There was a major starvation problem in Ukraine in the mid thirties as well it was done intentionally
 
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Corduroy said:
I get the strong feeling we agree with each but are being too cagey.

My whole point here is that the problem is not the population but the distribution of resources. Blame that on a number of things such as corruption, incompetence, war, neo-colonialism, discrimination, disaster etc., but it's not that there are too many people. When we say overpopulation is the problem, we suggest the solution should be fewer people, but that will only mean fewer people are being deprived. The problem is the deprivation.
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The distribution of wealth is a powerful tool toward execution of all the mentioned ills in this thread isn,t it.

avro24 said:
Famine happens all the time.
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Famine is as often a weapon of war as it is a result of natural conditions.
 
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