RE: The True Cost of Our Food. A Peek Behind the Scenes of the Food Supply Industry.
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In general, in Western world we have an excess of different variety of food, different manufactures producing the same under different names. All the products like dairy products, meat, eggs, can not be kept for long time and the same like vegs and fruits if they are not sold then tons of them are thrown away. That is really waste. The farmers are paid so little because the companies buy products cheap abroad. If local farmers are paid sufficiently, then of course the price for food will go up but the people will buy only so much that they really need and food will not lie in fridge for longer days, expire and been thrown away.
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When food prices were more reflective of production costs many of the poor certainly did make better use of perishables. They would be using the organs and cuts of meat the rich didn't want, purely out of necessity (assuming they were lucky enough to be able to afford meat, many weren't). It was that or go hungry and often they still did go hungry. I don't know if it ever stopped the rich from being wasteful, though.
I think it's hard to balance between over and under supply. Under supply would certainly mean people would think a bit more about their food and usage, but do we run the risk of even more going hungry? Heck, today with the over supply we have, people still go hungry even in first world countries.
I certainly think we're going too far when it comes to cheap food, though. Supply is going to completely collapse if these farms and companies go under because we don't want to pay what it costs to produce.
Hi @minismallholding, I fully agree with what you say, it should be a golden middle found and as you pointed it is true even in our Western World there are some people on streets begging and also those who have not enough income then they have to refer to food bank, despite of having really good social support here in UK. Difficult, especially now when the time heading towards winter and the Gas price is already exploded.
I've been hearing that already people in the UK are going to shopping centres and libraries to stay warm, because they can't afford to heat their houses, and it's not even full winter yet! I fear things are not going to be pretty at all, soon.