Between something 30%+ food never making it to the table, Rising obesity rates, corn being used for Ethanol production, and the excessive consumption of beef and pork there's an incredible amount of surplus in our food supply chain.

There is a potential for surplus in the food chain, but the logistics of transporting food from where it grows to where it is consumed leads to waste. The waste we have now may be considered low compared to a hundred years ago when we couldn't preserve food to last longer than a few days.

Rising urban density leads to less room for food growing and more people to feed...think about NYC and where all the food must come from to support 20 million people every day.

Sorry I wasn't arguing for child labor. I was just explaining why it was allowed in the past when family farms were more prevalent.