food riots

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Asda's potatoes are terrible atm.

super market veg is kept in cold storage for as long as possible before being put out on the isles, rank after 3-4 days

fucked them all off first lockdown when farm co-ops east of here really got there shit together and no it’s def not Parsley Box

 

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The global population is forecast to rise to 9.8bn by 2050 and a larger portion of those people will demand a richer diet. “Not a single country” has developed without increasing the proportion of animal protein in diets, says Alzbeta Klein, who heads the International Fertilizer Association. “You will need more grains, oilseeds, soy and corn to feed those animals.”
At the same time, soil health is deteriorating as a result of over-farming and climate change. A third of the world’s soils are already degraded, according to UN agency data, and available arable land could be halved by 2050.

But once countries become developed they start breeding below replacement level, so no problemo.

 

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Danny Dorling – Don’t panic about the birth of Baby 8 Billion. Before he’s 65 our numbers will be in reverse

 

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Quietly and seemingly out of sight, governments, private investors and mercenaries are working to seize food and water resources at the expense of entire populations. These groups are establishing themselves as the new OPEC, where the future world powers will be those who control not oil, but food. And it's all beginning to bubble to the surface in real time. Global food prices have hit an all-time high, threatening chaos and violence. Meanwhile China, Russia, the UAE and Wall Street are just a few of the players strategizing within this shocking, shifting geopolitical landscape.

THE GRAB is a global thriller combining hard-hitting journalism from The Center for Investigative Reporting with the compelling character-driven storytelling of director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, taking you around the globe to reveal one of the world’s biggest and least known threats.

The trailer's a bit Hollywood, but I suppose they have to sell it to people and make it exciting. The director says as much:

Fittingly, Cowperthwaite styles The Grab, and particularly the group’s handling of “the trove”, as more eco-thriller than environmental film, in order to reach as many people as possible. “If you use the words ‘climate change’, in a lot of these films, 50% of the country turns off,” she said. “The people that need to be hearing this are not just in blue states and not in this sort of environmentalist echo chamber, but just people, farmers who are walking out and seeing their wells dry.”

‘The big story of the 21st century’: is this the most shocking documentary of the year?

Six years in the making, jaw-dropping new film The Grab shows a secret scramble by governments and private firms to buy up global resources

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