Our Desire For CHEAP FOOD
G'Day Folks,
Let’s pretend we live in a world where priority is given to cheap food. Let’s take this notion very seriously, let’s take it all the way to its end goal. That is to say that ‘cheap food’ is valued more than the continuation of the family farm, our bustling regional towns, a decentralised food system and allowing any child to grow food for a livelihood should they choose too when they become adults.
What does this future look like? Well apart from some regional areas that become tourist destinations due to their unique natural beauty and proximity to city centres. The rest of the country will be handed over to corporations to grow food and fiber the cheapest way possible. Because this is what they do best.
A lot of the jobs will be filled by fly in fly out workers much like our modern mines. This is the easiest and cheapest way to access labour. Remember, there won’t be a town servicing a community or even schools for that matter. You need people and family’s to live there for those things to exist. And for the sparsely populated corporate farms that are dominated by machines and robots. These factory farms will only need a few technicians to keep them running and a few labourers (likely from overseas) to do the very few remaining jobs they haven’t been able to mechanise yet.
No longer will you pull into the little quaint country town for a coffee and some of that warm country charm. They won’t exist, instead it will be a drive through cafe of some sorts, whose staff are also flown in on a rostered basis. They won’t be able to tell you a single thing about the area, it will be as foreign to them as it is to you. But the coffee will be cheap, the service will come with a policy driven smile. And it will be quick and efficient, just the way we like it. I mean honestly, what can beat cheap food served in a fast manner so you can get on with all of those other more important and joyful things you’d rather be doing.
Whatever is deemed unproductive will be dispensed with. That grand old tree in the corner of the field is reducing yield by 0.002% “we must destroy it”. That field that has a small hill in the centre of it, “must be levelled”, it’s causing the machines to burn excess fuel. That human which is needed to to drive around and refuel the machines is costing too much money, “surely this can be done by a drone”. For god sakes people, our city dwellers need cheap food to survive the cost of living crisis, we must do everything necessary to achieve this moral prerogative. No stone must be left unturned, no sacrifice can be considered too great and any who say otherwise are completely immoral!
