Grim signs the globe is about to run short of food

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• osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We make enough food to feed 10-12B people, but for some reason, we feed most of that to the animals, then eat the animals. It is high time we just ate plants.

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Then there’s all the food that gets thrown away, eaten by rats or just left to get plowed back into the field.

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    people eat two third of our global crop calories.

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    • rjwilliamson@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      *citation needed

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    • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Which is exactly what they said?

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maybe one day we have the technology to torture vegetables and eat them.

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    • osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I hope so. I’m vegan because i want to torture and murder carrots! Fucking carrots, i swear

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah good luck with that. You really believe that will ever happen?

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  it’s not the price of fertiliser that worries me

  it’s the awful floods in China and the heatwaves and drought in Europe and the Americas

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• TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Anyone who is not working to increase their food resilience right now is crazy. This year I’ve turned half of my landlord’s lawn into veggie garden, and if I had a lawn of my own it would have been all of it. I’m also squirreling away whatever I can afford (not much) in long term food stores.

  I don’t like to think of myself as a doomer, but I think it’s time to think about these things.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They’ll keep Western nations fed for now at the expense of developing nations, which have already been forced into cash crops by GATT. See the Irish potato famine for the capitalist playbook on crop failure.

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    • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re assuming they can hold it together. I don’t have that much faith in our current crop of global leaders and I don’t think their grip on or understanding of the entire system is all that secure.

      I haven’t done or seen any analysis, but I’m at least considering the possibility that we may have a period where zero oil or anything else shows up from overseas. Do we even produce enough of our own to keep food moving, lights on, clean water coming out of the tap?

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