The Cure at Crisis

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Last year china imported more mas than you can typically export in a year, just to feed its pigs. The downsid heres that it will probably raise the cost of meat. Another thing you can do is to to produce less ba fuel and to use less of it. And then what you should do is to try and help the countries that will suffer most from this crisis.

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