What Happens When the World’s Breadbaskets Start Failing Simultaneously?
A look at the global food system focusing on the role of breadbaskets. Many disconcerting parallels to global financial crisis risks.
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Iran War: Rubio Testimony Raises Questions as to Why Iran Is Bothering With Talks; Intensified Tit-for-Tat Attacks Continue; US Muscles Oman
Today’s Iran war update: The kinetic war is heating up as the US keeps demanding things of Iran that Iran has already rejected.
Read more...A Food Philosophy for Our Time?
It is clear that in much of the so-called developed world, food has largely lost its meaning beyond nourishment. Julian Baggini has written about this, ten years ago in The Virtues of the Table, which is especially useful in considering how and why we eat. More recently Baggini has expanded his range in How the […]
Read more...Shutting Down Federal Bee Labs Threatens Bees, Beekeepers and the US Food System
Is the country’s food supply being destroyed intentionally?
Read more...How the Green Revolution Went Awry: Food Systems and Policies Undermining Food Security
Big Ag, which has shaped food policies, profits more from “innovations “in food production, processing, and distribution than food security.
Read more...Iran War: Trump “Pauses” Failed Operation Freedom, Rubio Claims End to Epic Fury With Strait of Hormuz Still Blockaded and Alarms About Real World Damage Rising
Today’s Iran war news: Team Trump says it is abandoning Project Freedom and Epic Fury while keeping the damaging blockade and sanctions on.
Read more...Iran War: Peak Chaos as Trump Announces “Humanitarian” Convoy to Enter Strait to Free Trapped Ships, Soon Walked Back by Officialdom; Negotiations Reported as Collapsing as Iran Toughens Position; UAE Enters War
Today’s Iran war news: Trump carries on with his signature chaos-making, but not necessarily to his advantage.
Read more...Industrial Agriculture and the Future of Food and Health
We have discussed the Great American Food System (GAFS) throughout this series, most recently in review of What to Eat Now (2025) by Marion Nestle. That the GAFS is productive, in both tonnage and profit (for some) is a given. But a common view of its critics is that much of this production is misguided, […]
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