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Originally Posted by Glenzig
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Excess agricultural goods are often, but not always, shipped to regions that are starving and could not otherwise purchase the food. Excess supply is sometimes destroyed because it cannot be meaningfully released without causing a price depression for that good. For example, a bumper crop of almonds might be destroyed because releasing them would depress the price and drive the supplier out of business. On occasion you have a situation that looks stupid, and sometimes it is, but there's generally something deeper happening to cause the event in question.
These are complicated economic matters. Chalking world hunger up to "greed" shows an undeveloped understanding of economic consequence.