Any competing plans you'd like to share that allows us to avoid losing unfathomable quantities of limited fresh water and raising a ton of animals so they can be hucked onto a landfill?
Any competing plans you'd like to share that allows us to avoid losing unfathomable quantities of limited fresh water and raising a ton of animals so they can be hucked onto a landfill?
They already have significantly more than they need. Americans already pay less as a percentage of their paychecks for food than any other nation on earth.
What they're running out of though, is fresh water. Having two extra Colorado rivers' worth would be pretty nice in the southwest! [1] And that's just from beef. Don't get me started on the gallon of water it takes to grow a single almond in the California desert while asking people to skip showers [2]. [edit] While the Utah governor literally prays for rain. [3]
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-river-water-level-60-m...
[2] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-29/californ...
[3] https://governor.utah.gov/2021/06/02/gov-cox-invites-utahns-...
Why don't then people just buy 1 milk today at today price instead of buying 2 and throwing one away? They'd still have drunk 1 milk, but for half effective price. Why aren't people already doing that?
People often make fun of economists with their very specific mathematical models of perfectly round customers, production functions, etc. They often have a point. It is important to not forget, however, that the popular understanding of economics is even worse, and your comment is a great example of that.
The problem is that spending an hour to drive to a grocery store and an hour driving back also costs something, in fuel and labor / time, so it totally makes sense to buy milk with some excess just in case more would be needed.
As said upstream, eliminate most zoning restrictions, make living more densely more accessible. (I line in NYC and the fact that I can walk most anywhere I need is great.)
> They'd still have drunk 1 milk, but for half effective price. Why aren't people already doing that?
I think I've already mentioned expiration dates and education around them, no? [1] My secondary argument is that people value things that are cheap less, and are more likely to waste them.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114335397/expiration-dates-l...
Fasting is healthy but I'd rather it not be done because you can't afford to eat.