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The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation (www.abc.net.au)

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The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a "doom loop" for the world's poorest people, as staple food prices soar.

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[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? The whole point of flooding rice fields is to manage insects without pesticides

[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Arsenic was used as a pesticide in many parts of the world throughout the 20th century. Even if it wasn't used on rice it ended up in the water where the rice grew.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/11/arsenic-in-your-food/index.htm