We do not have a food problem.
My Magic Tomato and Her New Icelandic Friends
We don’t even have a production problem.
Black Krim Tomatoes
Mmmmm.
We don’t even have a farming problem.
U-Pick Tomato Field at the End of the Year
What we have is a succession problem, compounded by land speculation.
Aging Farmer Cutting the Vines Away In Preparation for Plowing.
And a distribution problem, exacerbated by the lack of an adequate social language for these concerns.
Good Food Becoming a Burden and a Waste
The point is not that this food should be donated to a food bank, but that the distribution system, which includes the system of creating value to allow for this food to be harvested for compelling wages, is completely inadequate. This food should be in the jar and on the shelf and in kitchens and smeared on the faces of children.
Ridiculous. I am totally ashamed to live in a society that considers this normal.
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Next week: what a change in language can do for us.
Categories: Agriculture, cooking
Okanagan Okanogan 
What an utterly sad waste.
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Even more sad, the solution offered is, on the one hand, increased industrialization of farming, to serve the supermarket system, and increased reliance on charity and food banks, which is, really, just a subsidy for the supermarket system. Very sad, indeed.
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