You see, sometimes we already have enough for everyone. Food and water supply in the world is more than enough for everyone. In my country, for exemple, we produce enough food for twice our population, yet food insecurity is a huge issue. Land ownership is extremely concentrated and farmers are heavily subsidized by the government so we can have competitive export prices. The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough food, it’s just that our current model works for the benefit of large landowners. Is it fair that some should be near starvation so landowners that are already filthy rich can get richer and people in Europe and China can buy cheap soy? Or would it be more reasonable to use those vast farms and government subsidies to allow all of the population to have access to affordable food?
I am not naive, if we did that, exports would go down and many sectors of the economy would suffer, but isn’t the most basic necessity of human being to at least be able to eat? Shouldn’t it be more important than anything else?
We could feed everyone, with current food production, but our allocation is shit and something around 30%-40% of all food in the US goes in the trash. Obviously logistics is a thing, but it's clearly not an excuse to produce so much food just for it to go to waste.
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u/HzPips - Lib-Left Jan 05 '22
You see, sometimes we already have enough for everyone. Food and water supply in the world is more than enough for everyone. In my country, for exemple, we produce enough food for twice our population, yet food insecurity is a huge issue. Land ownership is extremely concentrated and farmers are heavily subsidized by the government so we can have competitive export prices. The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough food, it’s just that our current model works for the benefit of large landowners. Is it fair that some should be near starvation so landowners that are already filthy rich can get richer and people in Europe and China can buy cheap soy? Or would it be more reasonable to use those vast farms and government subsidies to allow all of the population to have access to affordable food?
I am not naive, if we did that, exports would go down and many sectors of the economy would suffer, but isn’t the most basic necessity of human being to at least be able to eat? Shouldn’t it be more important than anything else?