Given that we have a policy of over-production, in good years we can easily afford to waste food like that — it's not like we were otherwise either going to eat it all (because developed nations already have an obesity problem in aggregate) or actually donate any significant part of it to good causes (though we could and I'd say we should, even if it's local rather than international e.g. the UK where there's a shockingly large number of people needing to use food banks while also having an overproduction policy).
Given that we have a policy of over-production, in good years we can easily afford to waste food like that — it's not like we were otherwise either going to eat it all (because developed nations already have an obesity problem in aggregate) or actually donate any significant part of it to good causes (though we could and I'd say we should, even if it's local rather than international e.g. the UK where there's a shockingly large number of people needing to use food banks while also having an overproduction policy).
Question is, what do we do in the bad years?