Comment Eat Keto! (Score 0) 76
Then all these crops could fail and you wouldn't really notice!
Seriously though, I am sure there would be stuff you'd miss out on but if everyone went keto and only ate these things in moderation then a 50% reduction in their production wouldn't be a huge problem.
Of course if these are the only things you can eat because of poverty and other circumstances then... not so good.
We need to reduce the monoculture mentality in our food production. Remember bananas? The banana we eat today are not the bananas of 100 years ago. THOSE bananas all died out from infection. We eat different bananas today. I'm predicting similar problems with these crops. But don't worry - I'm sure Monsanto has their own proprietary gene engineered versions resistant to these plagues and they are just waiting to jump in - after all the competition is dead - to help the farmers. And by 'help' I mean 'rent them proprietary seeds that they have to pay a yearly subscription to use'.
Okay that's enough conspiracy ranting for today.
Seriously though, I am sure there would be stuff you'd miss out on but if everyone went keto and only ate these things in moderation then a 50% reduction in their production wouldn't be a huge problem.
Of course if these are the only things you can eat because of poverty and other circumstances then... not so good.
We need to reduce the monoculture mentality in our food production. Remember bananas? The banana we eat today are not the bananas of 100 years ago. THOSE bananas all died out from infection. We eat different bananas today. I'm predicting similar problems with these crops. But don't worry - I'm sure Monsanto has their own proprietary gene engineered versions resistant to these plagues and they are just waiting to jump in - after all the competition is dead - to help the farmers. And by 'help' I mean 'rent them proprietary seeds that they have to pay a yearly subscription to use'.
Okay that's enough conspiracy ranting for today.