Clearly there's no vital need for cheap asparagus. That's another problem. As the Irish say: God gave us the potato blight, the British gave us the famine.
That is to say, whith great income disparity, even when millions of people can't get enough calories, we can be throwing away moldy oranges.
Shortages of food will only make it more expensive for us, but people around the world will starve.
And a lot of people are not eating specialty foods from far off, they are barely getting enough calories from high yield starchy local crops like rice, corn, wheat etc. I am not sure how you could provide a population center like say Kinshasa with enough calories, never mind trace nutrients, without machines. Manually harvesting wheat or corn is not a way to feed the world.
That is to say, whith great income disparity, even when millions of people can't get enough calories, we can be throwing away moldy oranges.
Shortages of food will only make it more expensive for us, but people around the world will starve.
And a lot of people are not eating specialty foods from far off, they are barely getting enough calories from high yield starchy local crops like rice, corn, wheat etc. I am not sure how you could provide a population center like say Kinshasa with enough calories, never mind trace nutrients, without machines. Manually harvesting wheat or corn is not a way to feed the world.