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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

I live in U.K. but also spend significant amounts of time in southern France.

I’ve noticed extraordinary food sourcing decisions. I like apples and historically my home county of Kent used to be called “the garden of England”. We do still often see locally grown apples. Sometimes however we have apples from New Zealand, South Africa & Chile. I rarely buy these because it’s too confusing. How can apples come from half the world away yet be offered at around the same price?

Also, if climate change is such a near & present danger, & if oil is in dwindling supply, why in the world would a supermarket, which operates on huge turnover but low single digit gross profit margins, offer low to moderately priced commodities such as apples from such distant places, creating a supply chain risk to all the other imponderables?

A tentative conclusion is this. The powers that be are working hard to disconnect local food production from local consumption. They’re substituting distant supply for local consumption. That produces a frankly terrifying vulnerability. Imagine a real, false flagged or wholly faked “limited nuclear exchange in Ukraine”. I can’t expect other than that supply chains of everything would be disrupted. Recall the rehearsal they ran in USA for some weeks. There were hundreds of container ships anchored near major ports but unable to dock to offload because the mustering yards were filled with containers for which there were insufficient heavy trucks to carry them away.

If instead of hardware, this was a big chunk of our food supply, almost instant rationing would be required to prevent the violent breakdown of law and order.

As a separate matter, we’ve become ultra suspicious of all processed foods and to varying extents, quite a lot else.

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BigBlueSky's avatar

It never occurred to me that some food might be 3D printed. It actually makes a lot of sense. I bought a bag of avocadoes from Costco where a few in the bag seemed fine and ripened normally, and the rest were not even edible. Could they be mixing in normal, edible avocadoes with the weird avocadoes in bags so that people don't return the entire bag to the store? Also, a bit off-subject, but what the heck is going on with the constant attacks on Costco products by the FDA? First, they had to throw away and/or recall tons of butter, and then I read something about eggs and there was another food product that was targeted that I can't recall what it was. Could Costco be pushing back against this whole fake produce thing and they're being punished for it by the FDA? I have no evidence of this, just wondering.

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