241 / The emergence of ‘the global standard diet’

They diagnose the problem of hunger and poverty not as a shortage of food but as a lack of power,

We need new eating methods to take account of the new ways we are being supplied with food.

And yet the new follies we are perpetrating in our industrial food chain today are of a different order. By replacing solar energy with fossil fuel, by raising millions of food animals in close confinement, by feeding those animals foods they never evolved to eat, and by feeding ourselves foods far more novel than we even realize, we are taking ris

advocate for changes that would help develop a sound twenty-first-century food system, one in which our collective choices might actually matter.

We have built systems that rely on perverse incentives, giving massive subsidies in many countries that encourage the yield over environmental and health outcomes (for example, a focus on raw calories rather than nutrients). In richer nations, subsidies generally channel towards less healthy foods. Fruit and vegetables become luxuries, while heart