The absolute surplus afforded to us by modern farming and then the waste of so much of it will never cease to piss me off and will likely piss me off more in the future when we lose it to climate change.
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Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
What is so incredible is that we are living st a time with such massive food surplus that it would blow the mind of anyone living in the past… but they will let all of it go to waste and just add bullshit to the food just because they can…
Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
You don’t know half of it. The sheer amount of overwork farmland is going through world wide is causing soil depletion like no tomorrow. We may even end up seeing a full blown worldwide famine in some years time when it gets to the point that we simply cannot revitalize farm land.
We produce such an incredible glut of food it isn’t funny. If we took all the surplus that we make we could feed the whole of China for an entire year. That is how much is being thrown to waste.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, we aren’t- the current solar maximum while we have record heat and while the ozone is diminishing means we have mass death speeding up.
space.com/…/wonky-row-crops-and-possessed-tractor…
This is actually worse than you realize, because normally the solar maximum in the past DID mean peak crop yields and more food for animals and people. So much so a farmer in the 1800s predicted much of the stock market peak and troughs based on the solar cycle.
therationalinvestor.com/…/how-the-benner-cycle-pr…
So we should actually be at a food surplus but climate change etc is so bad (we are past 7 of 9 boundaries to live on earth) that we are dying and animals are dying. Mass, MASS deaths of insects and birds and sea life. We probably don’t have enough food worldwide any more, not this year at least.
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And make it unaffordable, because fuck it why not
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
Two for one deal of fucking everyone over.