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May 11, 2008
World Diet Crisis
This is a great overview of the reason that we must change our dietary habits. At The Health & Wellness Institute, we have been spreading the message that in order for an increase in the quality of foods like fruits and vegetables - along with an increase in general - there must be a demand. The easiest way to create that demand is to get more people eating more fruits and vegetables. The short conclusion to the change that would take place is this - more local farming would have to be done, thereby making the quantity available and the price affordable, specifically for these types of foods. Here's more from Professor Tim Lang --
AT NO time in history has the pace and scale of change in our diet been faster than the past 50 years. Consumer choice has increased massively, but choice is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Waste, overconsumption and unhealthy diets are rife. We cannot go on like this.
What troubles analysts today is that this time there are at least eight features of the 20th-century food revolution whose fundamentals are now under threat.
The first is the energy crisis. The price of oil has been over $100 per barrel for two months, having risen steadily for a year. Some 95 per cent of food products are oil-dependent – agricultural productivity gains rely on fertilisers and mechanisation. The first rush to biofuels as substitute oil is now looking thin and if land goes to biofuels, that means less land for food.
Secondly, world food commodity prices are rocketing. Most of this increase is due to rising prices of imported coarse grains and vegetable oils – those which feature most heavily in biofuel production.
Thirdly, world population is rising rapidly – from 6.6 billion in 2007, it will be 9.1 billion by 2050. This raises the fourth problem, labour: with a seemingly unstoppable rise in urbanisation, who will be the rural labour force?
The fifth fundamental is land. Read on...
Not only does Professor Lang point out the dangers of our current direction when it comes to dietary habits, but he also points out the obvious that most people are ignorant of - that the increase in processed foods that are being consumed over the past 25 years has also been met with an increase in disease. While this connection is not a studied and researched fact, it shouldn't need to be. Logic and general knowledge of the poor quality of these foods should be enough evidence.
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