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The Global Food Supply Chain is Brittle And May Not Survive the Next Pandemic
Support your local food network and improve your chances of surviving.
No one needs exotic foods from faraway lands to nourish themselves. Nowadays, we’re encouraged to ‘eat the rainbow’, meaning a diverse array of foods, mainly plants, from all over the world. However, this nutritional advice supports the food industry, not health. Whatever environment you find yourself in, the local, seasonal foods should be enough, and pre WW2, always were. Today, our food system extends vast distances providing us with foodstuffs from everywhere, all the time. This global, food supply chain is vulnerable in a million different ways, some obvious, some not. The unforeseen pandemic of COVID-19 has exposed an issue with the globalisation of our food systems and so, as food supplies start being affected, is it time that we start looking to our once secure, local food systems again?
“When it comes to food, nutrients are what matters, and they can be found in your local environment.”
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