by Sammi S.

Created on: December 20, 2008

How does profit-motive lead to famine? That's an easy question to answer. It's simple too, think about it, I can even write the steps.

1) Profit-motive owners starts charging higher prices for their crops.

2) Citizens and regular people can't afford such prices anymore.

3) Food that aren't brought are slowly decaying and becoming a rotten hazardous thing to our health.

4) Those food that are rotten are now being thrown away... but profit-motive people don't believe in throwing away so they either sell it at a low price (the price is still higher considering the product can seriously injure people) or they cut it up and feed it to their live stocks. (Cows, chickens, pigs... animals that we buy and eat)

5) The rotten food are still rotten no matter who eats it. The animals will slowly get sick, and those animals will either carry a flu, or a disease. Those animals could also die, and that section of food is forever gone.

6) Those animals that are sick, are then killed. So that remaining section of food is also gone. Then they throw their body away, but again, profit-motive owners don't believe in throwing away... so they give that food at low price and hope citizens doesn't know about it.

7) Sick animals that can't be sold because they could be sued, those bodies are then thrown outside of their farm and are left there to decay. Well, wild animals walk across the land, and... well, you can guess what happens when a wild animal sees food. That wild animal will then carry that disease that killed that livestock. The wild animal will continue walking and sometimes meets a farm. They walk in and out if they are careful. Leaving behind a trail of feces sometimes.

8) Those feces carry that disease and it's not "planted" in the ground. Animals (live stocks) that walk across the land of feces will slowly get that disease in their system. Those animals are then dead as well... repeat from step 6... (Step 6-8 are like a cycle)

9) After the cycle has passed, it's finally spring... with most animals dead and farm fields that aren't ready for planting. Well, you know... the fertilizers that are used for plants and crops... well, they are mostly from their live stocks, and guess what? Those animals are sick. Profit-motive owners also wants the crops to grow at an incredible pace and become extremely large... well, those "miracles" can happen if you apply medicine... bad medicine. Medicine that could kill people if we weren't careful. The crops already holds disease from the animals,

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