• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    Japan’s long-standing efforts to protect domestic farmers from outside competition, including limiting imports of foreign rice

    Here’s the why in case anyone is wondering. It’s not a global issue.

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      10 hours ago

      Japan seems hell bent on not taking any steps to improve things. They have serious issues with population demographics and they are really shit about allowing immigrants in to work in the likes of agriculture.

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        Of course part of that is the fact that Western diets don’t really involved anywhere near the quantity that the Japanese consume it at.

        After all rice pudding was invented to try and use rice up, because no one was eating it.

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      Maybe they should have had a plan B for situations like this. It’s great to take care of your own, but this is a perfect example as to why you can’t put all your eggs into one basket.