3 Reasons for the Fertilizer and Food Shortage By Bruno Venditti Graphics/Design: Sam Parker SOURCE: Visual Capitalist

Probably hard to tell from the photo, but this rye crop behind our home is perhaps half the height it should due to a lack of rain. It will be harvested in just a few days.

 

Food nationalism crisis threat looms over Asia by William Pesek SOURCE: Asia Times

What's the connection between higher food prices and higher interest rates? Consumers should borrow less to buy food? I don't think they are doing that. Should farmers, who are traditionally in debt, pay more to borrow money to run their farms? How on earth does that promote food production?

America's Trade and Regulatory Policies Have Contributed to the Baby Formula Shortage by Eric Boehm SOURCE Reason

"Thanks to strict FDA regulations and oppressive tariffs, America is already largely dependent on only domestic suppliers for infant formula: America exports far more than it imports every year. That's exactly the situation the economic nationalist want in all industries—and we're now seeing exactly how that can go wrong"

World's food problems piling up as India restricts as India restricts wheat exports SOURCE: Deccan Herald

 

Oat and soy milks are planet friendly, but not as nutritious as cow milk By Nikk Ogasa SOURCE: Science News

Milk’s footprint

Producing one liter of dairy milk uses more land and water and emits more greenhouse gases than the production of one liter of oat, soy, almond or rice milk. Among plant-based milks, water use is highest for almond and rice milks.

 

Destroying Food to Fight Climate Change Is Madness—and a Conceit That Could Prove Fatal by Jon Miltimore SOURCE: Foundation for Economic Education

 Image Credit: iStock While there’s no question that global temperatures are rising—14 percent per decade, on average—people should find the efforts by central planners to curb climate change more alarming than rising temps.

4 million eggs shortfall in Taiwan SOURCE: Poultry World

While there are multiple factors behind the shortage, some say that the Covid-19 pandemic is to blame as breeders were discouraged from replenishing their stocks of chicks. Photo: Lisanto NgUYo

Are Vegetarians More Depressed Than Non-Vegetarians? by Sebastian Ocklenburg, Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today

Fried food intake linked to heightened serious heart disease and stroke risk by British Medical Journal POSTED BY Medical Express

No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time by Damian Carrington FROM The Guardian

In Rural India, Less To Eat Than 40 Years Ago by Pavitra Mohan FROM India Spend

Here's What Sugar Does to Your Brain By Amy Reichelt FROM Live Science

Coffee price conundrum creates a stir BY Benoît Pelegrin FROM Asia Times

The next global agricultural revolution by Bruce Friedrich FROM TED Talk

TED Talk: What's wrong with what we eat by Mark Bittman

TED Talk: The Global Food Waste Scandal, Tristram Stuart

The strange eating habits of Steve Jobs by Melissa Dahl FROM CNBC News

This Professor Called Coconut Oil 'Pure Poison.' Is She Right? By Stephanie Pappas FROM Live Science

Why Does Airline Food Taste So Bad? Turns Out, It’s All Your Fault by Barbara Peterson FROM Conde Nast Traveler

Germany's beer purity law explained By Matthew Day FROM The Telegraph