Re:‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any pr...
by dauertewigkeit on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @05:17AM
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If that is the economist's conclusion than I'd rather kick the economist than take his advice.
Re:‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any pr...
by Martinussen on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:51AM
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Are subsidies not inherently valuing something highly? Except with some safeguards to prevent "Well you're poor so why are you worth keeping alive". Maybe it's better to shift ag subsidies to things like food stamps/some form of UBI, but that would definitively be a prerequisite.
Re:‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any pr...
by NotSuspicious on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @11:31AM
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Cheap food stabilizes the entire system. Expensive food is how you get riots.
Re:‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any pr...
by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @12:57PM
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I think you're spot on and it honestly amazes me how we have so much evidence of this throughout history and yet people can will still end up thinking about this purely in terms of "the free market".
If anything, food should be more expensive. Current prices do not represent the cost of production, hence subsidies. The consequences are nefarious: farmers spending their entire career paying off debt, half of produce ending up in the trash, underpayed immigrants working in agriculture, cheap imports (subsidized by the origin country) putting pressure on local producers...
Food is literally something we cannot live without. It should be valued accordingly.