The Real Threat to Your Way of Life

American Thinker ^ | 13 Mar, 2024 | John Klar

[MtnClimber]

It’s not about what you drive. It’s about what you eat.

With a constant stream of Hollywood end-of-the-world calamity blockbuster movies, Americans are generally distracted from the real-life disaster scenario that threatens us. Growing dependency on processed foods, often shipped long distances via crammed distribution systems, has created a vulnerability to food supply disruption unparalleled in human history.

Unprecedented Dependency

The Southern sharecropper of a century ago generally possessed a healthier and more secure food supply than the vast majority of today’s urban denizens. The sharecropper was essentially an indentured servant to the landowner, but he could produce a substantial amount of his own sustenance. Most modern Westerners (especially Americans) may own land freely, but they are indentured servants to industrial food manufacturers and the phalanx of captured regulatory agencies that oversee food and agriculture.

We tend to suppress or dismiss alarms that the American food supply — for decades the global leader in technological and genetic advances in plants and livestock — could in fact be vulnerable to a seismic disruption. Americans have come to take their food for granted, perhaps understandably: the average household food budget has long hovered at a mere 9% of income, and food choice diversity in products (including ethnic choices) has never been greater.

Yet there are fractures within this amazingly productive system: not everything produced is healthful for humans or ecosystems. Economic and other trade-offs involved in the creation of this “Green Revolution” in agriculture and food distribution may be a devil’s bargain. It is not the intention here to forecast doom, but to critically assess some profound and growing threats against which preventive measures might be employed.

Trapped in Suburbia?

The migration of rural Americans into cities for better pay and amenities over the last century or so has accompanied standards...

[Uncle Miltie]

I eat steak from the butcher and vegetables from the garden.

[jagusafr]

Buy local. Buy fresh, not processed. And support and defend your local farmers and ranchers.

[Manuel OKelley]

Yes and understand that most processed food is loaded with unhealthy crap

[oldtech]

Bear in mind that is added to the “unhealthy crap” we are already getting from this administration also.

[combat_boots]

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