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Peak Food Peak Food What’s Peak Food?Peak Food is the moment in time when per capita availability of food in the world reaches a maximum and then begins to decline. As world reserve food stocks have now fallen to dangerous levels, and increased prices have failed to push up food production, it seems that Peak Food is here. When reserve stocks disappear, panic and hoarding will clear the shelves, adding to the problem.
But worse is to come as food production goes into serious and sudden decline for the following reasons:
* climate change
* oil and gas shortages
* cropland losses
* crops used for ethanol and biodiesel
* competition for water
* falling fish stocks
* population increases with millions in Asia eating more meat so needing more land per person when there is less.
Two of these factors - climate change and oil and gas shortages - could independently cause catastrophic reductions in world food supplies. But if they were to happen at the same time there could be world-wide famine.The West is especially vulnerable because we have now become dependent on unreliable countries such as Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Iran for our food, just as surely as if the food was grown there. This is because our food production system has become totally dependent on oil to power the machines and trucks and to make the pesticides.
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Originally Posted by Ayn Rand 
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