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I see many good points to think about, but it seems pretty strange to have a whole article on food waste and to talk about a “shitty system” without a single me
by dahart 7y ago
I see many good points to think about, but it seems pretty strange to have a whole article on food waste and to talk about a “shitty system” without a single mention of meat, which is by far the largest source of food inefficiency in our system...
> There is a rosy assumption that wasting less food would make it back up the supply chain in the most impressive game of telephone ever and signal to farmers to grow less food. But that seems unlikely in an agricultural paradigm staked by subsidies that incentivize the overproduction of four or five commodity crops
It’s a decent point that we have incentivized a few crops and over-produce it. However, it’s not like supply and demand is magical. A reduction in demand can and will telephone through the system and lead to less production, it’s not an assumption or particularly impressive, it happens routinely.