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b_b · 3965 days ago · link · · parent · post: Should the government pay you to be alive?

Would highly recommend a book called The End of Food to anyone interested in food policy. (It was recommended to me by kleinbl00, so I'm paying it forward here.) There are a lot of things about global food distribution that seem to be irrational. This book is an investigation of why the food system is the way it is, and what perverse incentives make it so. Very enlightening.

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theadvancedapes · 3965 days ago · link ·

I'll definitely check it out.

EDIT:

For anyone who doesn't want to read the book, here is video of the author discussing The End of Food.

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