The Fate of Food by Amanda Little Summary
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Journey through a dozen countries as Amanda Little explores our food future amid climate crisis. Endorsed by Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Kolbert, this award-winning investigation reveals surprising solutions - from lab-grown meat to 3D-printed meals. What will you eat when everything changes?
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When the Supermarket Shelves Go Empty
Picture a Utah warehouse filled with Mylar pouches containing something called "post-food"-freeze-dried meals engineered to survive decades on a shelf, designed for families preparing for the worst. These emergency rations represent one vision of our culinary future, but thankfully not the only one. The real question isn't whether we'll have food in fifty years, but what kind of food we'll be eating and who will be able to afford it. Climate change is already rewriting the rules of agriculture, turning reliable growing seasons into unpredictable gambles and transforming fertile farmland into parched earth. From Wisconsin apple orchards devastated by unseasonable frosts to Kenyan maize fields withering under unprecedented droughts, farmers worldwide are discovering that the old playbook no longer works. What emerges is a story not of inevitable catastrophe, but of remarkable human ingenuity-sometimes brilliant, sometimes misguided, always revealing about who we are and what we value.
The Farmer's Bargain We Made Ten Thousand Years Ago
When Spring Arrives Too Early and Winter Comes Too Late
Silicon Valley Meets the Lettuce Field
The Farm Inside a Fabric Store
The Cardiologist Who Wanted to Grow Meat Without Killing Animals
Growing Food Forests in the Ruins of the American Dream
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