Egg-breaking rampage erupts in France where farmers protest low prices - Polidicks

[QUOTE=areolop;42576962]No shit. We're built this way. You gotta remember where our ancestors came from: Survival of the fittest. If I could eat my entire steak and survive, or share it and maybe survive, I'm going to not share that thing.[/QUOTE] Evolution isn't exactly survival of the [I]individual[/I], but rather survival of your[I] genetics.[/I] If you share your steak with other people in your community, it's likely that they will share your genetics, and therefore pass on those as they will survive as well. [editline]19th October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=deltasquid;42577581]Actually sharing my food with the other guy is making sure he'll share his food with me next time I'm hungry and he has food. Sorry but by your evolutionary logic humans would never have formed tribes, and later cities and nations.[/QUOTE] This, too.

[QUOTE=omarcam;42576207]yeah right this happens all over the world Do you know what Luis Vuitton, H&M and WALMART have in common? they burn all clothes that they don't sell. it's like nobody even wants to help poor people out. the human race is the extreme example of selfishness (sometimes). but offthreading, this is actually pretty bad, they could break the record of largest ommelete ever made, this is why france is full of slums and unmotivated people and it's going to the shitter.[/QUOTE] What's worse is that clothes burning usually happens for brand protection reasons, like they explicitly don't want their unsold clothes falling into the hands of poor people. Quit shitty really.

[QUOTE=Jsm;42578792]What's worse is that clothes burning usually happens for brand protection reasons, like they explicitly don't want their unsold clothes falling into the hands of poor people. Quit shitty really.[/QUOTE] ...Then why does H&M and WALMART do it?

People in Africa are starving.

[QUOTE=nomad1;42573032]HowtoBasic must be leading this :v:[/QUOTE] "How to transport commodities"

[QUOTE=Riller;42578973]...Then why does H&M and WALMART do it?[/QUOTE] Every article on the practice, mostly by H&M, that I've seen says it is done to prevent people from either selling the clothes on eBay for profit or trying to return them to the store as a return. I can't find any that say it's to decrease supply and pump up prices. It's simplistic and false to thing that less supply = more profit anyway. If that were the case everyone would make just a single shirt to sell, that way they could make the most possible profit. Every company wants to reach equilibrium where supply exactly meets demand. At that point the business makes the most profit without shortages or surpluses.

Instead of smashing them, why not give them to the poor? Omelette's for everyone :v:

[QUOTE=JgcxCub;42573499]You're incredibly naive. There is way more to this than meets the eye and the Daily Mail is of course only going to report on the things that will create anger and set people off against them rather than the whole story.[/QUOTE] If being mad at people for wasting a shitload of food is niave then I don't want to be smart.

This is a shell of a bad situation.

[QUOTE=Mebit;42580370]Instead of smashing them, why not give them to the poor? Omelette's for everyone :v:[/QUOTE] Because the whole point is to drive up their cost. If people just got them for free, it would make eggs even cheaper. [editline]20th October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=breakyourfac;42588905]If being mad at people for wasting a shitload of food is niave then I don't want to be smart.[/QUOTE] These farmers are in a panic at losing profits that threaten to make them lose their farms and livelihoods, crippling their own ability to put food on the table for their own families and you're crying over food thrown out that would have [I]never[/I] gone to the poor or homeless if had been saved to begin with. The poor and starving didn't lose anything here because they wouldn't have gotten those eggs anyway had they been saved.

That really sucks for the farmers, but breaking a shitton of eggs looks pretty fun.