Tremendous waste of food during a pandemic

Tremendous waste of food during a pandemic--if you have the means, go get it and redistribute free

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html

This is hard to understand--markets are supposed to work.

This is more like USSR under Stalin.  Next year they will plant less.  People need to learn how to cook and store and dry food too,