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>Western world has a bit skewed view of food anyway, since most distribution is handled by large companies that optimize for their own profit Where in the worl

• Synaesthesia 8y ago
  Venezuela is actually capitalist, almost everything is privately owned and not government run.
  • SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
    >Venezuela is actually capitalist, Really? Source? Because the government took over and controls the means of production. So you can see how I am confused by you saying that Venezuela isn’t “really” socialism. Or you can answer the topic at hand. Where is food distuributon successful where “companies optimizing for profit” is not the case.
    • Synaesthesia 8y ago
      The government has intervened to bring food to the poorest people, who have been cut off by corporations which do actually control the food supply. The government never took over the means of production.
• fsloth 8y ago
  Um, if you read my entire posting I made it fairly clear I think it's awesome that we can use market forces to handle food distribution. Maybe I was too obscure. The point I wanted to express was that the current species that are mainstream for food production are there for many reasons, including the fact, that it's easier to optimize food production business from the point of view of distributors if the number of species used is small. Hence if there is an odd plant that is used only regionally, it does not mean it could not become a staple - just that it's not currently staple, and not necessarily for any inherent quality of plant itself.