On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:06:13 -0500, Gale <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>  While I believe that the desire to produce more calories on smaller  
> amounts of land and constantly produce enough calories to drive down the  
> price of food (witness the extreme decline in food costs since the 1970s  
> in constant dollars), ironically, it may be that creating the opposite  
> dynamic - improving food such that costs rise and food becomes more  
> expensive relative to other standard of living measurments - that might  
> save the earth.  For example - valuing (and therefore paying) more foods  
> like wild fish may allow their habitat to be protected as the economic  
> model exists to sustain that use.

IMHO there has been a paralled decline in food quality, resulting in the  
epidemic of malnutrition and the horrendous increase in sickness.

William