The good, the bad, and the ugly of capitalism are with everyone now. Inequality is especially insidious with the concentration of wealth and access to food creating a wicked conundrum...
Feeding Everyone
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MarkPriorities for our food system
Humanity has a great need for food. We exist in unprecedented numbers and every person has a calorific and nutrient demand just to keep body and soul together. This has put food production and diet in the spotlight...
Should farmers be indentured servants?
Modern food production is geared for profit. The producer has less and less control over the process that sets input costs and price. Is it time for governments to intervene to support the family farm?
Would a climate silver bullet make us sustainable?
It would be nice to fire a silver bullet at climate change to make it go away. If such munitions existed all our troubles would be over. We think not...
Should you be paid to lose weight through exercise?
Should you be paid to lose weight through exercise? Well maybe, but it is going to be hard if it’s just exercise that generates the weight loss.
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Food
Finding solutions to future food
Humans are good at errors. We love telling people that they are wrong even when our pot is as burnt as their kettle. Critiques are not enough to shape our future...
Farmers supported Trump
Farmers are expected to be conservative, it’s almost a given. But really it is their attitude to risk driven by extremes of cost, uncertainty and sheer hard work of producing food for sale — together this is more than...
Food security – what’s wrong with this ad
As consumers, we are at the mercy of market forces. The prices we pay for our food and the produce available are determined by complex supply chains that start with the natural capital on the farm...
The 22 trillion a day challenge
Humanity has faced many challenges from famine, war and pestilence to climate change and COVID-19. So far we have overcome them all through fortitude, imagination and sacrifice. However, the biggest challenge awaits...
What is good food?
Food is the F in FED. It’s all about food production, how and what is grown to supply the human population with 22 trillion kilocalories each and every day. Clearly a miraculous achievement, but can we keep it going?
CharlieEcology
Why did the snail cross the road?
Why indeed? A snail has no notion of roads, what they are made of or what they are used for or even that it is lousy habitat for a gastropod. So what, you might ask...
Population – the good news or the bad news?
More people is good news, right? More customers, taxes, opportunities and overall development of humanity. Well, there is bad news too...
What causes extinction?
Extinction is forever and there is a lot of it going on just now. The question is why?
What is good ecology?
Ecology is the E in FED, the engine room of food production for both subsistence and intensive agriculture. Here we explain why good ecology is central to feeding everyone...
Obvious as the day is long
Weeds are bad, right? Well, that depends on the context and the truth may not be that obvious...
Diet
Meatless Monday?
It might make you feel good to go meatless on a Monday. But what about the billions of people who do not have the luxury of such a choice? Where do they get their nutrients?
Protein should be the foundation of the human diet
Getting enough protein is essential for wellbeing. Plenty of high quality protein in your diet has a bunch of health advantages. It could help you stay lean, resist disease and even lift your mood. Are you getting...
Is there a connection between diet and COVID-19?
Popeye and my mother knew that spinach would make you strong, but will it, or any other food, protect you from COVID-19? Maybe, but what food? The answer is not one food but a diet, a diet that works for you and, no...
Should you be paid to lose weight through exercise?
Should you be paid to lose weight through exercise? Well maybe, but it is going to be hard if it’s just exercise that generates the weight loss.
Eat more sugar, seriously
The prevalence of obesity across the world has nearly tripled in the last 40 years. Over 13% of adults are obese and one in three are overweight. The reason is an overabundance of calories and a lot of them come from...
