Its the economy of scale that ruins our food. Agriculture is 2% of our economy. Better taste etc would cost more. Its a free-market spiral where a thing can be made a little cheaper but gets a little worse, until all you can buy is crap for almost nothing.
Or switch to boutique products (food, furniture, whatever) that costs 10X - 100X more than the commodity stuff.
But don't economies of scale still say that you can improve prices for good tasting food by scaling up from the small farms? Maybe that just gets taken to the extreme year over year when people focus on constantly increasing profit.
Or switch to boutique products (food, furniture, whatever) that costs 10X - 100X more than the commodity stuff.