[pdonis]

> The real problem in farming is not cost but the fact that there are a lot of middlemen taking all the profits.

No, that's not the problem. The problem (if you view it as a problem) is that food is now produced very far away from where it is consumed, which means that the process of getting the food to the people who are eating it is now much more complicated and requires much more work. When you buy food at the supermarket, you are not just paying the people who farmed it; you are paying the people who got it all the way from the farm to the supermarket, which, these days, could well be a trip halfway around the world. There are indeed plenty of middlemen in this process, but they are adding value since food on a farm hundreds or thousands of miles from the consumer is no good to the consumer.

(This is not to say that there isn't corruption in the food distribution process; there certainly is. I mentioned government issues in another post in this thread.)

[AndrewGaspar]

> The problem (if you view it as a problem) is that food is now produced very far away from where it is consumed

The "bananas in Alaska" problem. :) https://www.superbeariga.com/shop#!/?id=12413&department_id=...