Actually, there is some research that suggests that we currently produce more food than we eat, which means we don't need the ability to produce as much food as we currently do. There are also ongoing studioes that are beginning to show that organinc and tilth oriented production can actually meet the same production amounts as commercial agriculture now produces. It is, in fact, that we prefer to have convenience and cost as prmary determinants of what we buy, as opposed to taste.
I would also propose that we, as a population, have become increasingly enamoured of food that does not taste good. If you look at things such as beer, you can see that the general population actually prefer mediocre beer to fine crafted beers. This is the same as meat, I can't tell you how many folks I feed pasture raised and finished beef or pork to only to hear the complaint that the meat tastes bloody, gamey or rotten. Inside I think...'it's farking meat! It is supposed to have blood!...but we are used to eating pablum in all aspects of our lives.
Screw the concept that the government has somehow colluded with big business to feed us garbage. We buy it. Here is an idea, let's all not buy the garbage that they sell us. I guarantee you, once the mega-marts start seeing their sales drop, things will change. Can't afford $10 per pound meat? Quit eating so much meat, eat less, eat quality, eat local and see how the market changes. Will this ever happen, no, because we have become a culture of entitlement, and I don't just mean kids or liberals etc...I mean all of use, we think it is normal to have a $3000 cooker in our backyard, we blame the preacher for out churches dying, we think we have a right to drive $50,000 pickups to the school to pick up one child etc...
Am I guilty of this, heck ya! I am not any different, except I accept my role, I don't blame the government, liberals, Fox news, the President, the Europeans etc...I do blame Bigabyte, but, he taught me to rant. We are getting exactly what we want and buy.
