The situation with food is that everyone today has access to good quality food if they choose to actually put their money towards it, but large numbers of people enjoy McDonalds and KFC and such slop, so they choose to spend far more on it than they'd spend cooking for themselves.
It is still much better than when large numbers of people starved if it rained a bit in the wrong week.
He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees
Of the singing birds and the humming bees;
Then talked of the haying, and wondered whether
The cloud in the west would bring foul weather.
The weather and its effect on the food supply was the preoccupation of 90% of the population 90% of the time for all of agricultural man's history (and pre-history) and hunting and gathering was even worse for quality of life.
It is still much better than when large numbers of people starved if it rained a bit in the wrong week.
The weather and its effect on the food supply was the preoccupation of 90% of the population 90% of the time for all of agricultural man's history (and pre-history) and hunting and gathering was even worse for quality of life.