04-21-2020, 01:28 AM
[less food waste & consumption] leilanidude - This accounts for the drop in demand.
So there is a drop in demand but yet store shelves are constantly empty and people line up for miles at food banks around the country? Those be strange signs of a lack of demand. Maybe if it hadn't been going on for months (and even longer although to less a scale), store shelves and food bank lines might look different?
https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distr...irus-panic
"Food waste and food insecurity rising amid coronavirus panic.
Nervous consumers hoard groceries and restaurants go take-out, while unemployment skyrockets and food pantries suffer. But solutions exist."
So maybe, just maybe, things are a bit more compicated and the disconnect between ample supply and ample demand points to larger issues with our systems of finance, production, and distribution? That somehow we can have millions of tons of excess food and tens-of-thousands of people needing said food and yet the economics don't make sense to bring them together. You know all that stuff Steinbeck talked about 80 years ago and we all should have read about by 9th grade?
So there is a drop in demand but yet store shelves are constantly empty and people line up for miles at food banks around the country? Those be strange signs of a lack of demand. Maybe if it hadn't been going on for months (and even longer although to less a scale), store shelves and food bank lines might look different?
https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distr...irus-panic
"Food waste and food insecurity rising amid coronavirus panic.
Nervous consumers hoard groceries and restaurants go take-out, while unemployment skyrockets and food pantries suffer. But solutions exist."
So maybe, just maybe, things are a bit more compicated and the disconnect between ample supply and ample demand points to larger issues with our systems of finance, production, and distribution? That somehow we can have millions of tons of excess food and tens-of-thousands of people needing said food and yet the economics don't make sense to bring them together. You know all that stuff Steinbeck talked about 80 years ago and we all should have read about by 9th grade?
