This particular alarmism (processed foods and loss of biodiversity) has been regurgitated for over 50 years on! After more than 50 years you would expect that we already feel the consequences! Do we?
This decades long hysteria is so tiresome and boring!
To make it sound more scary it is not highly processed food anymore, but ultra-processed food! Time to pee in your pants!
And how do we feed 8 billion humans realistically and practically every day if not with highly efficient large scale farming and food production?
"... Over 7,000 edible plant species have been identified and used for human food since the start of human agriculture over 12,000 years ago. However, fewer than 200 species still had significant production in 2014, with just nine crops accounting for more than 66% by weight of all crop production, the researchers wrote. ..."
From the highlights:
"... The contribution of ultra-processed foods to agrobiodiversity loss is significant, but so far has been overlooked in global food systems summits, biodiversity conventions and climate change conferences. Ultra-processed foods need to be given urgent and high priority in the agendas of such meetings, and policies and action agreed. ..."
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