after thatcher, western society made a purposeful decision to privatize food distribution to religious organizations. this wasn't due to government mismanagement, and isn't some kind of mistake. thatcherite and randian ideology argues that it is not the role of government to distribute services to the population, and that citizens should not be taxed to distribute resources justly. rather, they argue it is up to the church to do this, and that the church should be funded by donations, rather than taxes. this is seen by conservatives as a decrease in government coercion, and increase in voluntarism, but it wouldn't feel that way to anybody reliant on the services, who are now forced to deal with religious institutions that have views they don't adhere to or agree with, rather than governments bound by bills of rights and guarantees for universal access and secularist value systems. this is fundamentally rooted in the theoretical economic mistake that markets are efficient and government are not, which was popular in ivory towers 50 years ago, but which has been proven 100% exactly wrong by thorough empirical data, which demonstrates very clearly that markets are infinitely more wasteful than governments, and that virtually every market will be expected to fail almost immediately, without deep and consistent government intervention.
increasing the cdb is one approach, although i'll point out that people don't seem to realize that it's tied to inflation. if you're going to tie it to inflation, it makes sense to come in low. the cdb will increase on a yearly basis and the increases will compound over time. if they had come in with a higher number, that might have been harder to maintain.
it is a better idea to allow governments to centralize resources, which is even easier to do now than ever due to advances in technology leading to increases in speed and efficiency in warehousing and database management. a province wide distribution system that accepts inputs from producers and suppliers would be far easier for the government to manage than it is for a free market of volunteers and religionists to hack together.
like so many of the problems facing us, the solution begins in undoing the free market ideology that western capitalism has adopted since the 1970s as ideologically backwards and empirically wrong and re-embracing centralization and government supply management, which the technology has dumped on our laps as feasible, logical and cost effective to implement. until we have this shift of mindset, we will continue to decay in the dystopia of late capitalist free market economics.