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Along the Food Chain with Michael Olson…
FUTURE OF OUR FOOD
(Food Chain Radio #596)
We now live in a world where everything costs more today than it did yesterday much more! This leads us to ask
Who will feed us tomorrow?
In 2006, I found myself driving West on Interstate 10 toward Flagstaff, Arizona when traffic came to a dead stop. After sitting in the car for quite some time, I got out to stretch my legs. What I saw when I stood up beside the car was quite amazing. There, stretching out in front of me for as far as I could see to the West, were two lanes of idling trucks. Oh, there were a few of us cars sandwiched between the rumbling giants, but only a few.
While standing there, I got to thinking. What would happen if all those trucks were forced to stop for good?
They eventually cleared some wreckage off the freeway, and all those trucks proceeded to deliver their goods to a hungry nation, and all is now well, or is it?
In 2006, the price of diesel fuel hovered in the neighborhood of $1.50 per gallon. Today, two years later, that same gallon of diesel sells in the neighborhood of $5.00 per gallon. That is an increase of over 300% in two years.
They say food now travels an average of 1,500 miles from where it is grown to where it is consumed. If such is the case
Who will bring our food to us?
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