House of Lords: "Food is too cheap"

Lady Mar, a Countess who inherited her seat in the House of Lords, has stunned commentators by announcing her brilliant solution to stop Brits from wasting so much food: she thinks that the answer is to make food more expensive.

It has overtones of Marie Antoinette, but what was she trying to say, and does she have a point?
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