>In a perfect world everyone would have a limitless food budget.
>Unfortunately we do not live in a perfect world.

if it is your definition of a perfect world, so occidentals rich countries
are giving a perfect life to its inhabitant, because in comparaison with the
rest of world  the consomation of energy by their inhabitant is tremendously
higher than the por peoples in the world.
in my opinion a bigger budget is an obstacle to find a healthy place in the
ecosystem, it is the waste of energy spent in "making "silly responses to
true needs ,it is the waste of energy spent at making the food cheap ( so
real needs are unsatisfied and create needs for more) .
1 .70 dolar in proportion of an occidental income is very small in
comparaison of what a dozen of eggs will cost to the budget of an inhabitant
of india for ex..
 food Prices are made  artificialy low  for business purposes and don't
represent the real cost of energy , ecologically speaking.
to be able to produce commercial  eggs at low  price , the misuse and the
detourning of precious natural ressources is necessarry .
we wil be better off , ( truely richer) if food had its real cost in term of
energy,  truely represented by the price.

in a perfect world like it is  in a natural ecosystem, the energy potential
is allways extending, for the simple reason that the sun energy is reaching
the earth every day leading to an increase in biomass. only human
interference by wrecking the natural distribution of energy is succeding at
a global " desertification" where the total biomass is diminishing
impoverished (more humans but less of everything else, and because we don't
live from bread alone , this diminution of  the diversity of the species who
support   , directly or indirectly, our existence is dramatic.
i will rather pay "high price " for eggs but having the natural ecosystem
necessarry to support the healthy existence of the chickens who produce them
. And chickens need lot of space to forage .

jean-claude



 I am not absolutist or
>elitist in my paleo-diet thinking and so I am free to consider some basic
>economics when thinking about food and nutrition.