Industrial agriculture has increased our population well beyond the actual carrying capacity of the land.
We could feed everyone on earth with a fraction of the food the world produces, capitalism forces most of it to be thrown out because someone can’t make money from it. Just go look at the dumpsters behind every grocery store, restaurant, etc. - they will be full of food that the store has deemed unsellable.
Yeah, that’s another whole kettle of fish, but you are right. And it is sickening when you learn about intentional measures being used by various businesses to prevent dumpster diving/freeganism.
They don’t just do that with food, by the way…IIRC, the “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” doc covered both purposefully ruining food and consumer products…
We could feed everyone on earth with a fraction of the food the world produces, capitalism forces most of it to be thrown out because someone can’t make money from it. Just go look at the dumpsters behind every grocery store, restaurant, etc. - they will be full of food that the store has deemed unsellable.
Yeah, that’s another whole kettle of fish, but you are right. And it is sickening when you learn about intentional measures being used by various businesses to prevent dumpster diving/freeganism.
They don’t just do that with food, by the way…IIRC, the “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” doc covered both purposefully ruining food and consumer products…
Yup, especially shoes and clothes.
Yeah, but we couldn’t feed everyone in the world if we had to rely on the natural environment.
There’s just too many of us and not enough good living areas, so we’re stuck in the trap of agriculture.