Food as You Know It Is About to Change

The New York Times ^ | July 28, 2024 | David Wallace-Wells, Opinion Writer

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From the vantage of the American supermarket aisle, the modern food system looks like a kind of miracle. Everything has been carefully cultivated for taste and convenience — even those foods billed as organic or heirloom — and produce regarded as exotic luxuries just a few generations ago now seems more like staples, available on demand: avocados, mangoes, out-of-season blueberries imported from Uruguay.

But the supermarket is also increasingly a diorama of the fragility of a system — disrupted in recent years by the pandemic, conflict and, increasingly, climate change. What comes next? Almost certainly, more disruptions and more hazards, enough to remake the whole future of food.

The world as a whole is already facing what the Cornell agricultural economist Chris Barrett calls a “food polycrisis.” Over the past decade, he says, what had long been reliable global patterns of year-on-year improvements in hunger first stalled and then reversed. Rates of undernourishment have grown 21 percent since 2017. Agricultural yields are still growing, but not as quickly as they used to and not as quickly as demand is booming. Obesity has continued to rise, and the average micronutrient content of dozens of popular vegetables has continued to fall. The food system is contributing to the growing burden of diabetes and heart disease and, through new spillovers of infectious diseases from animals to humans as well.

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But the supermarket is also increasingly a diorama of the fragility of a system — disrupted in recent years by the pandemic, conflict and, increasingly, climate change.

It's been deliberately disrupted by killing millions of cattle, pigs and chickens over rigged diagnostic tests, billionaires buying up farmland, fertilizer production being knee-capped and a myriad of other climate change superstition inititiatives.

Eat 'ze bugs!

[Theophilus]

" what had long been reliable global patterns of year-on-year improvements in hunger"

Look at the way these maniac SOBs write! They are hydrophobic animals.

[Colinsky]

New improved Hunger 2.0!

[one guy in new jersey]

“...climate change.”

Stopped reading right there and looked at the source. Yep-pure propaganda.

Do the drones the NYT is broadcasting to ever wake up? Or do they just breed more and more drones?

Are we going to have to hole up at some point and ruthlessly defend community, sanity, humanity?

[dennisw]

FULL ARCHIVED VERSION === https://archive.is/7VDpk

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Thanks for violating the consent decree.

[one guy in new jersey]

Humanophobic.

Or, as Musk so aptly put it in his epic takedown of Harris:

Extinctionists

[Lockbox]

From the vantage of the American news media sites, the modern news media system looks like a kind of miracle. Everything has been carefully cultivated for propaganda and control………

[one guy in new jersey]

Is that /s?

[workerbee]

Rates of undernourishment have grown 21 percent since 2017...[and yet?] Obesity has continued to rise,

Sounds like a big plan for redistribution of the wealth to me.

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No. Posting a full archived link to a paywalled article violates the consent decree.

If you want to read a full version just google how to bypass a paywall and do it yourself. It’s not rocket surgery.

[dennisw]

I skimmed it. Half the article is how global warming is going to lead to decline in world food production.

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Which is BS.

Global warming superstition and the evil policies they are implementing because of it are what is leading to decline in world food production.

[metmom]

Food as I know it is going nowhere.

Learn to garden and you won’t be forced to depend on what the government decides to provide for you, whether you like it or not, all for your own good, of course.

Diana has the gardening ping list which is a wonderful resource here on FR.

[No name given]

I stopped reading at “climate change”. I see the cult of gaia is at it again.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Hello China! Buy more American soil and don’t forget some more virus.

[Karoo]

https://yandex.com/search/?text=food+as+you+know+it+is+about+to+change&lr=109857

[metmom]

Which is a straight up lie.

Warmer temperatures = longer growing seasons and increased food production.

History shows that climate optimums, which are wat the warm periods are called, result in advances in the human condition.

Global Temperature Trends From 2500BC to 2040AD:

[coloradan]

“But the supermarket is also increasingly a diorama of the fragility of a system — disrupted in recent years by the pandemic”

More gaslighting from The Grey Whore.

The pandemic caused very few disruptions, it was the government response to the pandemic which caused so many problems and so much disruption. There is a difference.

[Sequoyah101]

Not a word of what the times or any affiliate publication writes can be trusted. Every word of it is propaganda.