In general, in Western world we have an excess of different variety of food, different manufactures producing the same under different names. All the products like dairy products, meat, eggs, can not be kept for long time and the same like vegs and fruits if they are not sold then tons of them are thrown away. That is really waste. The farmers are paid so little because the companies buy products cheap abroad. If local farmers are paid sufficiently, then of course the price for food will go up but the people will buy only so much that they really need and food will not lie in fridge for longer days, expire and been thrown away.