Food Crisis at the Local Corner + Grocery Stores

In the past few weeks, there has been stories of an international food crisis dealing with prices, with stories here, here, and here to name a few. In the US food is already being rationed, and it won’t take long before the effects hit us here. Food riots are breaking out in the old world. The poor are being effected and nothing is being done. It is a cruel and unusual treatment of the poor and the worker who are already suffering from the tax of the GST and general inflation on their incomes. Thus is the price of the free market.

If we should do anything beneficial, we should begin small and work our way up. We should start by getting rid of the GST altogether as well as taxation on the working poor and the average worker. The rich are too rich and are hoarding up wealth for themselves, storing money in foreign banks that we can’t access and blowing money on useless shit that gets used once then dumped. We aught to tax the wealthy again, increase the tax on them, up to 33.33% per cent or a third of their wealth. Price control should be introduced and enforced to prevent gouging. Lifestyles need to be changed as well for the sake of all. Fair pricing is key, however. A balance, both fair for the agriculturalists and the buyers, especially those who are poor and the worker, these fine individuals that take the brunt of this shit.

There is also a lot of food being wasted and not being distributed properly. It is a shocking fact that the grocery stores in this country also ship outdated food to second-hand grocery stores in the north as a form of insult to the locals, treating them like shitters for their decomposing food. There is so much food stocked on shelves in the supermarkets, yet the space and the food is wasted because it does not conforms to the number of people that go to them. Because of the numbers of people visiting grocery stores, a lot of food is being wasted, constantly re-shelved daily. DAILY. I used to work as a stocker at a grocery store in Saskatoon and I was shocked by the fact that in spite of the few items being purchased, there was still some food left yet we kept replacing the items, in spite of the fact that there were still items left.

This has got to change. We need to have smaller grocery stores with less amounts of food, with the more or less popular the item, the more or less are stocked on the shelves. The rest of the food, the surplus, needs to be re-distributed properly to ALL parts of the country, especially the rural north. The size and number of grocery stores should also be determined by the size of the city in space and population. This food also needs to also be distributed to other countries around the globe in an effort to prevent, stifle and eventually eradicate hunger.

I mean, the stores are HUGE and there’s just so much food being left on the shelves gathering dust. Thirty rows of the same product on one shelf and only three or four have been taken. This has got to stop, this has got to change.