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Originally Posted by MeoTwister5
The problem here is that food is (or at least should be) a basic right as a necessity of life.
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Well, it's a necessity of life, whether that is a basic right on the same level of freedom of speech and other basic human rights... well, I suppose that depends on your political views.
I certainly can't recall any human civilization where food is considered to be a right and provided free for all.
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What we're seeing here is that the supply will get controlled by very few individuals. It's not just the farms but agritech as well. In third world countries this is increasingly apparent, especially in uncontrolled free trade where product dumping is becoming a problem. Here in the Philippines it's becoming excessively cheap to buy imported rice due to lifting of trade restrictions, slowly killing the local industry. We're one of the worlds biggest rice importers, and we're primarily a rice agriculture nation. That's just stupid.
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Er, in third world country the problems are completely different, one is larger companies growing larger, the other is people taking all the supply and distribute them only to those they want to.
As for the Philippines, maybe you guys need to boost the efficiency of your local farms?
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We seriously can't allow the food supply to be dictated by the supplier. There is so much demand, nay need, of food for starving populations across the globe.
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Except those starving population are starving not because of any conspiracy by food suppliers, they are starving because the people in charge there are too busy killing and blowing each other up.