Food prices drop in surprise move
In a surprise move, it seems that food is now available at drastically reduced prices. Jolyon White tells the story in this week’s Word on the Street.
The Word on the Street – 2 from Anthony Dancer on Vimeo.
In a culture in which around 1/3 of the food we produce goes into landfills, the issue isn’t perhaps that there’s a shortage of food, but that we have become lazily addicted to overstocked shelves with a superabundance of surplus choice which supermarkets supply, nurture and encourage.
We are an incredibly wasteful disposable culture. That attitude is driven to a large degree by the (relatively cheap) cost of production. But that cost is artificial, and ignores both the cost to the environment and the exploitation of millions of workers who are simply not paid a just and living wage and allowed to work in safe conditions.
Everything has a price. With food prices going up, perhaps we are now being confronted with some of the cost of our unsustainable desires.
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