That's an excellent question. I don't think our system is quite so blatant with it, but I'm sure the same sort of thing does exist in some fashion.
We are much more concerned about the beauty of food, the presentation of food and the price of food than we are about the health and the accessibility of food for the people who need it. Many times, because of a lack of labour, they can't glean the field. Food is left in the field to be ploughed under or to rot. Then we have children having to access food from a food bank because they don't have enough.
I really can't speak to the economics of whether grocery stores are doing that on purpose to create profit. That's not really my level of expertise. What I do know is that there's a surplus of food that's available and going to waste. We need to consider how we can get that food back into the system in a way that is specifically designed to help the people who are most in need. If we do the right things and in 20 years we've significantly reduced food insecurity, that need won't change. We'll still be looking at how we can reclaim that food and get it to the people who can use it. Maybe they can pay at that point. That's fine, as long as we're not wasting the resources we create. There's no reason to create resources and then waste them. That just doesn't make sense to me.