Comment by Aerroon
1 year ago
It's not a political problem if somebody actually has to do the physical work of growing the crops and harvesting them. Somebody has to do them and that somebody wants to get paid for it.
If you could remove the somebody from the chain then the entire cost to produce food at that point would be "fiction", ie it would be possible to make it free. But as long as human labor is involved in the production it cannot be free.
Currently, the labor is so cheap (per pound of food) that we pay one group to produce it, and then pay another group to transport and dispose of it.
I’d argue that production labor is close enough to free for all practical purposes.
Focusing on distribution or environmental impact would have significantly more practical impact.