Infertility on the Menu 

Population Collapse

Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1382

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Guest: Samantha Lejune, Researcher Population Research Institute

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Infertility and Population Collapse

In 1968 Stanford Biology Professor Paul Ehrlich published a book entitled The Population Bomb, in which he said, “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”

The World’s population in 1968 was 3.5 billion; today is 8.2 billion – and get this – 1 in 8 of us are obese!

Clearly, something happened to make the brilliant Stanford Biology Professor’s prognostication fail, and fail in a very big way.

Perhaps Erhlich failed to catch on to Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution which was then taking place out in farm country. As Erhlich was writing The Population Bomb, Borlaugh was industrializing agriculture by developing new, high-yield grain varieties, employing mechanization and applying chemical fertilizers. In 1970, Borlaug, who is credited for having saved over a billion people from starvation, won the Nobel Peace prize, while Ehrlich became as best selling media sensation around the world.

But wait, all is not quiet on the population front. In fact, the collapse in U.S. birth rates is reaching dangerous proportions.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just reported that the total fertility rate—the number of children that American women average over a lifetime—is now at an anemic 1.62, well below the 2.1 needed for replacement.

Many couples are childless, although not by choice. One in six are simply infertile, while others have great difficulty conceiving. And so today we pause to ask:

Take the 2X2 Pledge

“Together, we can eat our way to economic security and personal freedom, and it won’t cost a dime and it will be so easy it will make you blush!”

Michael Olson’s Three Laws of the Food Chain

#1 Agriculture is the foundation upon which we build all our sand castles.

#2 The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in that food.

#3 Cheap food isn’t!       READ MORE