We both grow more than we need, and throw more than we should away.

Some of that is a result of picky shoppers wanting unblemished produce. Some of that is a result of not having an easy profit motivated way of getting produce from where it’s grown to where it’s most desperately needed.

We have tropical fruit available all year, but when impoverished peoples experience a crop failure, best we can do is send powdered milk.

Which incidentally may have cured them of lactose intolerance.