I don't think food is cheap because of any cheap food policy. Food is cheap because it is being industrially produced on large farms where the profit margin is tiny, and because of vertical integration, and because the only real farmers are the ones that liked the lifestyle of being on their own farm and running the show themselves and they've been squeezed out by the large corporate farms. There are mega-hog-barn janitors now but I wouldn't call them farmers.
Nowadays, the rural area is evolving into an industrial zone with food processing as the main industry. The farmers that are left, and the corporate-owned land grows the raw material for the factories and little else. The Alberta government just slashed another 40 plus% of the agr. budget and now only have specialists that must cater to the food processing industry.
Nowadays, the rural area is evolving into an industrial zone with food processing as the main industry. The farmers that are left, and the corporate-owned land grows the raw material for the factories and little else. The Alberta government just slashed another 40 plus% of the agr. budget and now only have specialists that must cater to the food processing industry.
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