Are Britain and America at Risk of a Chronic Food Shortage?
The Ukraine war on my mind…
If at the start of the year, you had said to me that there was the likelihood of a chronic food shortage, partly due to the war in Ukraine, I would have foamed at the mouth like Cappuccino and actively denounced whoever it was who making the prediction.
And here we are in June 2022, dealing with a burgeoning food shortage, rising food prices and starvation in what is supposedly a ‘developed nation’.
While you can argue with a degree of credibility, coherence and passion that Britain’s problems are self-inflicted, due to its exit from the single market and what commentators have described as a hard Brexit, it must be written that we aren’t the only ones grappling with this difficulty.
America has had its difficulties too.
Theirs have mostly been about the shortage of baby food, which is being sorted out by the government of the day.
But I see the baby food shortage, in lots of ways as being a precursor to something far more intractable and troubling: First world food shortage.
In a previous post I had written about the biggest food companies in the world — ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus — and the powers that they wield over American politics and by…