Free Food Update

It has been a dream for many people to create a system that creates free food available for everyone. The possibility is right around the corner with the advent of solar powered factories, along with the mini-mart food shop accompanying fuel stations. There is a huge number of people in this world who would be willing to work part time in return for a direct payment of food, even just for one or two hours of work. This could be considered a volunteer occupation, with all food priced purely for the reimbursement of labor and fuel.

To start the system, a fully established shipping company needs to partner with a network of fully established factories, or branch out to run a dedicated free food factory venture. The truck drivers could be existing truckers who want to help out one day a week with feeding the needy, or simply want free food. The factory workers could be people who are looking for jobs or work experience and would work for food,  people who want to feed the needy or just want free food. The fuel would be earned by dropping off food to the mini-mart fuel stations in exchange for points on a gas card.

It would be extremely easy to get a free supply of grains of most types into the factories from any number of farms. This is because many farms have to throw out their produce because of lack of demand and overproduction, leading to spoilage of otherwise perfectly good grains. Some estimate that this number can be as high as 30% of food crops annually.

Generating completely free food may require the creation of a completely free supply chain. One popular method is to create isolated communities of people who get together for a common goal. These could be people who don’t want to have to relax during a vacation, or people who enjoy taking life slow on a traditional farm, or some kind of youth group trip to learn about farming, or just some people who want to help make food free, and people who want free food. Each commune could have its own methane production plant generated by their dairy farm to deliver grain to the factories.

New farming methods need to take hold in order to make making free food a viable possibility. It is just an expectation of life that there will be few people available to donate their precious time, and many people who are in need of the services provided. This means that per-person productivity needs to be increased, and not only for free food production, but for-profit enterprises as well. Technologies like biologically secure geodesic dome structures that focus more light into the farm, or multilevel agricultural buildings that sit in the middle of towns, or even altering plants to grow at any time of the year and at a single steady temperature would boost productivity immensely.

There needs to be some financial incentives to get individuals and businesses involved in the creation of free food networks. The free food organizations could get together frequently to spend their excess capital in a bonus program to give extra hard workers of any station a little boost. This attracts people to volunteer, if not to help feed the needy, then for a chance to win $1000 bonus prize every month, or $100 per week. Non-profits and volunteer organizations often get tax breaks all over the place. They also attract intelligent individuals interested in advancing the common good, even people like accountants and lawyers flock to the aid of these organizations in times of need. Active charity work often also attracts large government grants, often in the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. This could be the one final ingredient needed to make everything run smoothly.