# Countrymen starving? What to do? Charge farmers with crime of growing food!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countrymen-starving-what-to-do-charge-farmers-with-crime-of-growing-food/421914>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 8, 2007, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countrymen-starving-what-to-do-charge-farmers-with-crime-of-growing-food/421914 "2007-10-08T08:25:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countrymen-starving-what-to-do-charge-farmers-with-crime-of-growing-food/421914/81 "2007-10-12T08:22:18Z")

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[QUOTE=kidchameleon]  
Yeah, but they had a whole system in place for feeding their people (sorta). It’s one thing to do things inefficiently to replace nothing, but it’s another to replace a semi-working system with 10th century farming techniques.  
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Exactly. Native African farmers made out just fine before Europeans showed up, I should say - and if you want to go back to feeding one-twentieth of the number of people per acre, you’ll make out just fine once again.

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**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countrymen-starving-what-to-do-charge-farmers-with-crime-of-growing-food/421914/82 "2007-10-12T12:36:06Z")

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[QUOTE=DrDeth]  
to a large extent, they have brought it on themselves.  
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I really think you should at least attempt to defend this ridiculous statement.

How was colonialism their own fault?

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