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Hunger Breeds Discontentment By Hannah Gardner Summary

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Hannah Gardner uses propaganda to try and make people eat more potatoes. She talks about a lab experimenting in producing potatoes in a more efficient and faster way. The lab claims that this way will produce potatoes faster than ever. Hannah states people eat to much noodles and rice and she is trying to draw them away from that and eat more potatoes. She states that potatoes require 30 percent less water than rice, wheat, and corn and that this will help our water shortages from worsening. Yu Xinrong stated “Hunger breeds discontentment…” however china is a major producer of Potatoes, but now they just have to convince china that potatoes are not just peasant food.
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