{"id":75029,"date":"2020-05-13T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=75029"},"modified":"2020-05-13T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:51:00","slug":"sickness-our-food-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/sickness-our-food-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sickness in Our Food Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">\u201cOnly when the tide goes out,\u201d Warren Buffett observed, \u201cdo you discover who\u2019s been swimming naked.\u201d For our society, the Covid-19 pandemic represents an ebb tide of historic proportions, one that is laying bare vulnerabilities and inequities that in normal times have gone undiscovered. Nowhere is this more evident than in the American food system. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">A series of shocks has exposed weak links in our food chain that threaten to leave grocery shelves as patchy and unpredictable as those in the former Soviet bloc. The very system that made possible the bounty of the American supermarket\u2014its vaunted efficiency and ability to \u201cpile it high and sell it cheap\u201d\u2014suddenly seems questionable, if not misguided. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">But the problems the novel coronavirus has revealed are not limited to the way we produce and distribute food. They also show up on our plates, since the diet on offer at the end of the industrial food chain is linked to precisely the types of chronic disease that render us more vulnerable to Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">\u201cOnly when the tide goes out,\u201d Warren Buffett observed, \u201cdo you discover who\u2019s been swimming naked.\u201d For our society, the Covid-19 pandemic represents an ebb tide of historic proportions, one that is laying bare vulnerabilities and inequities that in normal times have gone undiscovered.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":75032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1031],"tags":[6,8],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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