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So let the free market decide?

Hell no.

Thank you Maj. You saved me some keystrokes. Ditto.

That's the only way to properly do that? If there is a governing price over the foods then that is what determines how much we eat. If people tend to shift in different directions at different times from different seasons of the year then the market decides what should be cheaper by what people want to buy.

Maj, please interpret for me what Domino posted. I read it three times and still have no clue.

This is simpler. The market is what decides the prices. That's how prices are determined, if we eat more of one then the prices are lower. It's simply like buying something in wholesale. If we stop using it as much and start switching to eating something else the prices will start to change to what the people eat.

I think I can simplify this even more. You're suggesting a free market system of supply and demand. Right?

Yes, we are speaking of commodities are we not? These are global items.

I believe in government intervention where necessary. Maj nailed it with her comment. I cannot improve on it.

That doesn't fit though, I understand the essence of it but America barely even grows sugar, to this day most of our sugar is imported from Latin America and the Caribbean. We have already found the cheapest way to but it.

Fruits are a completely different story, the government has a lot of control of that. Specifically in panama, and that's why we see the evolving banana.

This isn't an immediate financial matter. I'm not interested in saving money. It's a matter of public health, which btw will have an adverse long term financial impact without government intervention.

So maybe I'm interpreting this differently than what you are trying to get across. You believe there needs to be government intervention to help make fruits and vegetables cheaper than grains and sugar(using those examples) because they provide for a healthier lifestyle?

Yes, but more specifically corn rather than grain.

So you think corn should be cheaper through intervention?

I'd go all grain, personally.

Corn shouldn't be cheaper. It should be more expensive. Spinach and raspberries and squash and peaches and tomatoes and broccoli and kohlrabi and and and should be cheaper.

No Domino, corn should be expensive. It's the biggest threat in this category.

Once again Maj, you saved me keystrokes:). Ditto.

Are you also saying corn should be more expensive because of ethanol? That way gas would be more expensive long term, assuming people would start driving electric cars for environmental reasons as well.. Or solely just food purpose.

I was speaking of food and health but you just sweetened the deal. Gas prices are too low. We need incentives to expand use of renewables.

I'm saying food purpose because ethanol ruins gas tanks and makes more carbon emissions than it saves. Corn is not an efficient fuel source.

I should be more precise: ethanol ruins car engines.