On: Why the world's biggest military keeps losing wars

[warkid]

China?

[Gurkenmaster → warkid]

I think the majority of china's population eats rice which doesn't have to be processed as much as bread.

[mapt → Gurkenmaster]

Paddy rice is a substantially higher labor crop than mechanization-friendly wheat production per calorie, and China eats about as much wheat as it does rice; It grows even more maize, but this is mostly as feed.