To think Westerners shouldn’t be dictating what other countries should or shouldn’t eat?

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This has always annoyed me. If you eat beef/chicken etc. what makes you think you can decide what animals should or shouldn’t be considered food? I think such attitudes have colonialism connotations. I am not talking about animal welfare here, just the idea of what and shouldn’t be considered as food.

[quote PlanDeRaccordement]@MangoFeverDream I’m talking bigger picture than dogs in China. I’m talking the reality of geo-politics.

So this is an example of how one rich country pressured several poorer countries experiencing a crisis into eating a food they had banned in law as unsafe.

In 2002, there was famine in Southern Africa, specifically Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. They had prohibited the same GMO grains that the EU prohibited as unsafe for human consumption. But the US in sending food aid refused to send nonGMO food. The US could have sent nonGMO food but they thought the GMO laws were nonsense and wanted more markets for their biotech firms. The African governments were put in a position of let their people starve to death, or accept the US GMO grains as food aid. They held out for months, but nonGMO aid from the EU was not enough, thousands were still dying of hunger. And eventually, they were forced to accept the US’ GMO food aid out of desperation, although they were able to require that it be milled before export to prevent transgene contamination with their local varieties of crops.[/quote]
That's abhorrent