From my friend Cody, an excerpt from an article on Africa and food:
The key to ending hunger is sustaining Africa's food biodiversity, not reducing it to industrial monoculture. Currently, food for African consumption comes from about 2,000 different plants, while the U.S. food base derives mainly from 12 plants. [emphasis mine] Any further narrowing of the food base makes us all vulnerable because it increases crop susceptibility to pathogens, reduces the variety of nutrients needed for human health, and minimizes the parent genetic material available for future breeding.
Jesus Fucking Christ. The world envisioned in my head is sooooooo far away from where we're going, I don't think two are in the same dimension.
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