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In the developed countries food is just to cheap. I know this is controversial statement, but considering how much food is wasted daily, and how much we're over

by 6d6b73 10y ago

In the developed countries food is just to cheap. I know this is controversial statement, but considering how much food is wasted daily, and how much we're overeating it's possible that not subsidizing food production, and getting rid of pesticides would be better for us all. The only other issue is that poor families would possibly have even less access to food, but if we shuffled subsidies from farmers to the poor, that would probably be enough. Also, problem with the food full of pesticides, and virtually empty of micronutrients is that this food is not really something we should be eating anyway.

pmyjavec 10y ago
I'm glad someone said this! Like a lot of cheap goods available presently in the west, they often have a low monetary cost but a high social and environmental cost. IKEA furniture has had a dubious past, for example [1] and, cheap clothing can be horrendous. [2] Most people don't give a single thought about this stuff though, people even get abusive if you mention it, but I still like to practice what I call "deep consuming", which is investigating the origin of goods before purchasing :) [1]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/29/ikea-ancient-tree-logging https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/29/ikea-anc... [2] http://truecostmovie.com/ http://truecostmovie.com/
simion314 10y ago
Do you think that in a rich capitalistic country the farmers would prefer to have less productivity? they will use all legal methods to obtain maximum profit. Since not all population will buy green/bio stuff you will not solve the pesticides use by starving poor people in poor countries. I do not know a lot about subsidies but usually farmers get less taxes on diesel and buying new equipment and in EU they get some money to encourage them to increase the farm and productivity.

by 6d6b73 10y ago

pmyjavec 10y ago

I'm glad someone said this! Like a lot of cheap goods available presently in the west, they often have a low monetary cost but a high social and environmental cost. IKEA furniture has had a dubious past, for example [1] and, cheap clothing can be horrendous. [2] Most people don't give a single thought about this stuff though, people even get abusive if you mention it, but I still like to practice what I call "deep consuming", which is investigating the origin of goods before purchasing :) [1]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/29/ikea-ancient-tree-logging https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/29/ikea-anc... [2] http://truecostmovie.com/ http://truecostmovie.com/

simion314 10y ago

Do you think that in a rich capitalistic country the farmers would prefer to have less productivity? they will use all legal methods to obtain maximum profit. Since not all population will buy green/bio stuff you will not solve the pesticides use by starving poor people in poor countries. I do not know a lot about subsidies but usually farmers get less taxes on diesel and buying new equipment and in EU they get some money to encourage them to increase the farm and productivity.