Food production is at an all time high and yet food prices and food waste is insane. It is 100% price gouging. They would rather waste massive amounts of food and ruin topsoil and insist on shrinkflation instead of sacrificing a few dollars.
Transportation cost.
I live in a city that makes a specific brand of granola bars. If I go buy a box off the shelf at the store, that box has traveled a minimum of 400km before I touch it (ignoring converters and whatnot in the production facility.)
Centralization has really fucked up the cost of things.
Islam forbids this kind of profiteering off food and stuff. I am an atheist, but the fact that stuff like this is mentioned in very old religions is telling for how far back this bullshit goes.
I believe it is mentioned under the concept of suht (if im not wrong), another thing that is atrocious in our time are taxes are based on income ie the working class has to pay. Where as, islam preaches wealth tax (in form of zakat) which would work as a good barriers against billionaires. Literally no one needs a billion dollars but somhow it is the norm that billionaires exists and pay little to no taxes but everyone else who do work have to pay ~20-40% in taxes
i read somewhere that we produce about twice as much food as we consume. the rest is either thrown away, processed into biogas (biodiesel) or used very inefficiently, such as feeding livestock with it.
HOWEVER, it is important to notice that it is very important that we produce excess food.
because food is a natural product, it is subject to natural changes in food production rate.
for example, a 1815 volcano eruption in Indonesia (!) caused the sky to darken sothat less sunlight could reach the ground, which meant that plants had difficulty thriving. It led to bad harvests in places as remote as India, North America and England. Wikipedia writes:
The crisis was severe in Germany, where food prices rose sharply, and demonstrations in front of grain markets and bakeries, followed by riots, arson, and looting, took place in many European cities. It was the worst famine of the 19th century.
That is true. But we need to manage waste better and have more sustainable farming. I am aware of the volcanic eruption that had far reaching effects on the world. But I thought it happened later in that century (I think the famous painting The Scream had the sky colored that way as a direct reference to the event).
Food production is at an all time high and yet food prices and food waste is insane. It is 100% price gouging. They would rather waste massive amounts of food and ruin topsoil and insist on shrinkflation instead of sacrificing a few dollars.
Transportation cost. I live in a city that makes a specific brand of granola bars. If I go buy a box off the shelf at the store, that box has traveled a minimum of 400km before I touch it (ignoring converters and whatnot in the production facility.)
Centralization has really fucked up the cost of things.
That, too.
I can’t remember when or where I read this so please take it with a grain of salt; but most food shortages are caused by market speculation
Islam forbids this kind of profiteering off food and stuff. I am an atheist, but the fact that stuff like this is mentioned in very old religions is telling for how far back this bullshit goes.
I believe it is mentioned under the concept of suht (if im not wrong), another thing that is atrocious in our time are taxes are based on income ie the working class has to pay. Where as, islam preaches wealth tax (in form of zakat) which would work as a good barriers against billionaires. Literally no one needs a billion dollars but somhow it is the norm that billionaires exists and pay little to no taxes but everyone else who do work have to pay ~20-40% in taxes
and so is world population, so it balances out.
We produce so much food we can feed the entirety of China on just the surplus alone.
i read somewhere that we produce about twice as much food as we consume. the rest is either thrown away, processed into biogas (biodiesel) or used very inefficiently, such as feeding livestock with it.
HOWEVER, it is important to notice that it is very important that we produce excess food.
because food is a natural product, it is subject to natural changes in food production rate.
for example, a 1815 volcano eruption in Indonesia (!) caused the sky to darken sothat less sunlight could reach the ground, which meant that plants had difficulty thriving. It led to bad harvests in places as remote as India, North America and England. Wikipedia writes:
That is true. But we need to manage waste better and have more sustainable farming. I am aware of the volcanic eruption that had far reaching effects on the world. But I thought it happened later in that century (I think the famous painting The Scream had the sky colored that way as a direct reference to the event).