Food Systems

This is a must-read article. Russia is at war with Ukraine, the food and grain breadbasket of Europe. Russia is the largest exporter of wheat in the world. Food is an issue globally and in the U.S.  The supply chain for food is also breaking down at the same time. It's time to say no to control over food and free the farmers to do their time-tested job of feeding the world.

The California company, Good Meat, is testing its cultured chicken meat product in Singapore. Unlike other man-made ingestible items (i.e., drugs and nutraceuticals), there is no testing as to possible adverse health effects or other complications. Technocrats invent because they can, not because there is public demand to do so.

With limitations to the menu of available drinks, Cecilia can dish them out faster than 4 human bartenders working non-stop. However, she won't lend a sympathetic ear or give advice to weary travelers. Alas, Technocrats solve problems that don't really need to be solved and mostly just because they can.

“It’s a fable driven by hope, not science, and when the investors finally realize this the market will collapse.” Lab grown meat is a fairy tail that has no more chance of saving the world than does windmills or solar panels. The overblown hype of science-can-do-anything is due for a comeuppance and none too soon before these unbridled Technocrats destroy civilization.

Technocrats at Amazon continue to push cashier-less stores, first with Amazon-Go and now with its subsidiary, Whole Foods. Cashiers do not make up the largest portion of grocery employees, but they will eventually be missing from many stores as this trend continues, and the use of cash will diminish, forcing people to pay with smart phone apps.

The FDA approved genetically engineered salmon as "safe and effective" in 2015 but now the land-locked harvest is rolling out to commercial institutions nationwide. Critics have nicknamed the product "Frankenfish".