West-Berlin had a wall around it for decades and there was a political need to not be dependent on food transport that relied on permission from the Soviets. As a result we likely had larger stockpiles of food than any other city in modern history.
Groceries are a low-margin business but if you require all the supermarkets to follow a regulation they can just pass on the costs to customers.
It’s also worth noting that we pay huge sums of money in agricultural subsidies, sometimes inducing people not to produce food. We likely want to restructure those subsidies in a way that leads to larger stockpiles of food.
West-Berlin had a wall around it for decades and there was a political need to not be dependent on food transport that relied on permission from the Soviets. As a result we likely had larger stockpiles of food than any other city in modern history.
Groceries are a low-margin business but if you require all the supermarkets to follow a regulation they can just pass on the costs to customers.
It’s also worth noting that we pay huge sums of money in agricultural subsidies, sometimes inducing people not to produce food. We likely want to restructure those subsidies in a way that leads to larger stockpiles of food.