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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaxalon" data-source="post: 394399" data-attributes="member: 789">The concept that magic will make agriculture more productive in the absence of technology is specious.  The increases in productivity from things like "bless crops" spells will be counterbalanced by increased threats from the various monsters that inhabit fantasy worlds.Generally speaking, packaging, inspection, and distribution (your "inspections, packaging and middle-men") don't REDUCE the value of the food, they ADD to it.  Inspectors mean that spoiled food causes less loss of labor due to illness and death caused by food poisoning.  Safer food is more valuable food.Likewise, packaging helps keep food from spoiling due to spillage.  Unspilled food is more valuable than spilled food.Distribution increases the value of food because it moves it from places where the food is cheap (where it's produced) to places where it's more expensive (where it's consumed).Now waste, fraud, and abuse WILL decrease the value of the food, but I submit that those are present in EVERY culture.</blockquote>