Just how expensive is our wheat in reality?

…To put it simply, the last couple of centuries, probably since the opening up of the Americas, have seen the price of food fall to unprecedented levels.

Compared to our ancestors either we are unbelievably, fabulously rich, or the price of food is so incredibly cheap as to be incomprehensible to anyone born before 1500 AD.


Socrates, the great philosopher, once served as a soldier (as a citizen he felt he should, even though he wasn