people are more aware of the process of and repercussions due to the production of food. so let us consider that healthier [sic] (a "sic" i agree with) foods currently cost more. this is due to their 1. rarity 2. import costs 3. production costs.let's take an example less obvious than say, organic, locally grown fruit. let's say that people start to realize most sliced bread is infused with corn syrup as a sweetener. said people being to resist these breads, opting for breads that advertise themselves as "corn syrup free."

awareness has been initiated, we may say, among the majority class (that is to say, not granola-eating-hippies, as my boyfriend calls the now-burgeoning under class). it is easy to see that many production companies will find other ways to sweeten bread, & thus, look for more affordable ways to do so. why are foods sweetened with agave nectar usually so expensive? well, because they are 1. rare (prompt higher prices) 2. have to be imported 3. cost (currently) more to produce than corn syrup. however, here's the big question: what happens to the corn producers when companies like coca cola, nabisco, & wonder bread slowly phase out corn syrup? or any other food for that matter? personally, i have really enjoyed the success of local food markets, natural food stores, organically grown produce, and general awareness of health of body and earth of recent years. however, i do think that the agricultural System is less evil than most democrats believe, and really a product of extremely shoddy managerial directive from the horribly run USDA & FDA regulators. if we show farmers there is an alternative, then perhaps a unified solution can be reached. let us opt for showing just how marketable foods are when they are more thoughtfully produced.

it is not that affordable food is on the decline. it is that a change in market awareness has changed consumer desire, & therefore, consumer consumption.

Soybeans have estrogen in them thats why the fish are screwed up. We have to legalize hemp. Hemp produces 8 times more bio-diesel. Hemp is NO-TILL farming. We will have to battle the Democrats to get this done. Growth hormones and feed lots must be outlawed. They wont go away on their own! Grass-fed beef is great.

I drove from NC to South Dakota last summer: From eastern Iowa to SD, as far as the eye could see in any direction, on Interstates or secondary roads were endless fields of corn and soybeans.....most of it not edible by humans, but rather for livestock or fuel.
As a result, commodities are in shorter supply and becoming more expensive. Happening everywhere. In poorer countries there have already been food riots.
Besides, "cheap and abundant" is not really all that desirable anyway: Look at all the sickly fat people running around, look at what factory farms are doing to the environment as well....look at what we are doing to animals.
Eat local, eat a little less. It won't kill you.
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