In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
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Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.
Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
Food is a part of life. People are foodies and love to shop for food.
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.