Anyone lurking on this humble blog will have noticed that I’ve become rather passionate about the state of the food industry and its impact on the global health system. All of the doctors and scientists I’ve featured here in the past six months all say get off the seed oils and switch to olive or coconut oil. Which I did twenty years ago already. This got me thinking, is it even possible?
Global oilseed production is projected to reach 632 million tons on record plantings. Soybean production is forecast to rise 23 million tons to 386 million, a 6-percent increase. Production of all oilseeds is forecast to increase, with all but cottonseed and rapeseed reaching at least 10-year records.12 May 2021
On average, during the period 2016 to 2021, world production of olive oil was 3.1 million metric tons (3.4 million short tons). Spain produced 44% of world production. The next largest producers were Italy, Greece, Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. I now refuse to buy anything but Australian olive oil after being warned by a Sicilian wwoofer who worked here that most European olive oil is cut with seed oil.
Simple maths therefore shows that there’s 210 times more unhealthy oil produced globally than healthy olive oil…..
Coconut oil is just as bad at 3.6 million tonnes. Worse, a quick google discovered this… :
As I suspected, the whole metabolic syndrome epidemic is not a problem, it’s just another predicament. In fact it’s so much like “let’s switch from fossil fuels to renewables”, it’s not funny. This one’s outcome, however, is that it will kill millions, if not, eventually billions of people….. And when you’re in serious overshoot, population collapse is the only outcome.
according to Dr Robert Lustig who was one of Nate Hagen’s recent blog guests, the growth in diabetes in the USA (quite likely similar in Australia) is a staggering 4%. And of course insulin resistance is the cause of all the modern diseases now already crippling global health systems!
So now, what are our chances of dumping the farming of corn soy wheat and the many other grain crops that are also part of the problem?
Global soy acres are slated to see an 11.7-million-acre increase this year to 333 million acres. Continued expansion in Brazil and Argentina will account for most of the acreage, but nearly 4 million more U.S. soybean acres will also help global soy acreage gain ground.
A contraction in global corn acres harvested will lead to the smaller 2022/23 global acreage estimate. Nearly 8.9 million fewer corn acres will be harvested compared to last year, bringing the 2022/23 total just shy of 501 million acres.
About 500 million acres of wheat are spread over the world too for a total of 1.38 billion acres of the three most unsustainable crops. Most of which are probably GMO.
Big Ag, and Big Food make a lot of money from these crops, they represent most of the calories in processed foods most people consider normal these days. And the scraps are fed to cattle for more profits, making the animals just as sick as the humans who ingest these plants. Grain fed meat is so high in omega6 fatty acids that it’s tipped the normal 50:50 ratio of OMEGA6 to OMEGA3 to a mind blowing 25:1. The result is the insulin resistance epidemic….
The momentum of these multinational corporations must be unfathomable. They probably make trillions of dollars of profit annually, at the expense of most of us and the planet. I can tell you now it’ll never be turned around until it’s way way too late…..
Now here’s some hopium for you lot… I doubt Daniel is remotely aware of the predicament we face, at least as I’ve described it here, but I so related to him (he even spent ten years in Tasmania!) that I just had to share. Some of us might make it, but I reckon 90% of people will not.
Overshoot takes no prisoners.
Damn the Matrix 