Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than Ever

Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by save_ferris on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:15PM (#23225291)

Have you seen the images of food bank lines in the last two months[0]? The problem with quantifying demand is that’s typically based on ability to pay, and we’re currently looking at what, 20% unemployment?

Millions upon millions of Americans are at risk of starvation, and a central goal of an initiative like this is to make food as available as possible so that people don’t starve.

0: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/17/837141457/thousands-of-cars-l...

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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by zamadatix on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:46AM (#23234811)

Sure but that only goes to say demand is even higher not answer the question about how we're supposed to be able to source food for that demand if commercial food production isn't efficiently convertible to consumer food production.

I.e. the question isn't "do people still need to eat" it's "will the shift in food demand type from commercial to consumer good create shortages".

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