{"id":63874,"date":"2022-10-19T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63874"},"modified":"2022-10-19T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T23:07:09","slug":"look-before-you-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63874","title":{"rendered":"Look Before you Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look Before you Eat<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"\"Preface.<\/strong>\u00a0This post is a book review of Be Wilson\u2019s\u00a0Swindled. From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee \u2013 The Dark History of the Food Cheats<\/em>.<\/p>\n

With likely\u00a0world peak oil production in 2018<\/a>, the price of food will rise relentlessly, since fossil fuels are used to fertilize, plant, harvest, distribute, package, cook, and refrigerate food, and oil is the master resource that makes food and all other goods possible through transportation.<\/p>\n

So how to cope with future food shortages and improve your health? Whole grains, corn, lentils and dried beans not only last 10 to 25 years if stored properly, they\u2019re cheap and healthy. Consider milling your own grains, and though this is a bit out of date, here\u2019s a piece I wrote up for my book \u201cCrunch\u201d on how to do this: \u00a0Which Grain Mill is best<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Energy decline will make all goods more and more expensive and scarce, so maintaining your health is a key strategy to weather the long emergency ahead.\u00a0\u00a0There is no plan to cope<\/a>\u00a0with the energy crisis yet, for\u00a0many reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wilson makes it clear clear that cheating has always gone on and always will, especially in societies with laissez-faire governments who prefer promoting commerce to protecting their citizens.\u00a0 In the United States and Britain, there is very little testing of chemicals added to food and most chemical additives don\u2019t need to be listed on labels.<\/p>\n

Food in many nations is sold on a \u201cbuyer beware\u201d basis.\u00a0 I personally can\u2019t afford to test rats over decades with elaborate chemistry sets at home, so I try to cook from scratch with whole grains, vegetables, fruit, etc. And buy organic produce that are the most pesticide laden like peaches, strawberries, apples, and so on, see:\u00a0Dirty Dozen \u2013 Shopper\u2019s Guide to Pesticides in Produce<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 EWG<\/p>\n

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Look Before you Eat Preface.\u00a0This post is a book review of Be Wilson\u2019s\u00a0Swindled. From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee \u2013 The Dark History of the Food Cheats. With likely\u00a0world peak oil production in 2018, the price of food will rise relentlessly, since fossil fuels are used to fertilize, plant, harvest, distribute, package, cook, and refrigerate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[11836,1912,328,554,588,617],"class_list":["post-63874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-food-production","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-natural-gas","tag-oil","tag-peak-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63875,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63874\/revisions\/63875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}