“Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?”

The question “why can’t people feed themselves?” looks like even back then the government and big business was screwing over the little man and farmers and people, planning ways to take their crops at a fraction of the cost and make millions from it. Then they turn around, just like today and tax them to death. They had their land taken away and the people that were able to keep land eventually had to lease it out to foreign companies and lost it to taxes. They quit farming food production items and went to items such as; coffee, tobacco, and sugar, the big money makers. Take Del Monte, why do they need 57,000 acres? When they only use 9000 for crops, the rest of the land just sits there and wasting away with just a few cattle on it. Without land to farm for food he people are forced to work cheap labor to make a little money. When the great depression hit as many as 80,000 young people were forced to the Gold coast to try and get a job. Food was suppose to be cheap so they could buy it with their wages, their imported food ruined local food production they became dependent on imported foods and didn’t know what to do if the supply was interrupted in anyway, they had nothing to fall back on because they were not growing any food. I think after awhile of this that generations down the line did not even know how to farm food production so I think this is why so many are starving today, maybe they need to be taught how to do it they did it once before. So this is why there is so much hunger they replace food crops with cash crops and now there is no food to feed their nation, the cash crops were exported at very low prices. The colonist and foreign companies took over the best agricultural land for export crop plantations and then forced the most able-bodied workers to leave the village fields to work as slaves or for very low wages on plantations. They encouraged them to use the imported foods instead of growing it, blocked native peasant cash crops