Climate Change and Your Food

Why have separate magazine about food and guns when you can get it all under one cover?

There are some international climate conferences happening right now, but they've been a little overshadowed with the daily murder and mayhem caused by the climate denier's other hobby, the denial of sane gun laws. With the immediate urgency of the terror of recent mass shootings in the US and abroad, it would be tempting to think that climate change is a slower-moving problem that can be back-burnered until some of this gun-stuff gets worked out. Problem is, evidence is growing that it is not.

I've been enjoying some milder winters these past few years, despite the increasingly less-odd massive snow storms and violent hurricanes. This year's bike season went straight up to mid November, while in past years I had to down shift as early as mid-October, and I expect there might be some rideable days towards the end of February. While my personal hobby of riding a bicycle might be affected for the better, our whole damn food system depends on 10s of 1000s of years of constant climate to feed ourselves and the world.

Farmers in (Vermont) used to count on being able to plant corn in May, she says. But weather patterns are shifting. The month of May is now typically cold and wet, "so they're really not able to plant their corn until the middle of June. That delays its harvest. And then we might have an early frost."
The result is less corn for Vermont's cows, and less local milk for the state's dairies. "It really changes the economic structure of how dairy products are produced in Vermont," Brown says.

Climate change will not kill us with super heat or extreme cold (at least not at first), or even super-storms or mounds of snow. It will kill us by food and water scarcity. And if the lack of food and water doesn't get you, the social upheaval might. Even worse, the bleeding edge of crop disasters could possibly start with the primary growers of cocoa in Africa might see their crop. I foresee myself and a massive of pre-menstrual ladies rioting.

NO CHOCOLATE?!?

And once the cocoa and corn yields are suffering, so goes Big Food.

Some of these are major companies in Republican states, and they're standing up and saying we need a strong deal," Kelly says. "This has never happened before."
Parkin of Mars says the food industry will be instrumental in fighting climate change. "What those companies are doing is coming together to encourage governments, basically saying to government, 'We need you to make similar commitments,' " he says.

Republicans deny climate change and avoid sane gun control because it is in their financial interests to do so. However, it is in their financial master's interest to do something about climate change. Too bad their currently isn't similar financial incentive to protect innocent lives from random gun violence.

WEEKLY AVERAGE: 2973

Oy, too high. If I don't gain weight this month, it'll be a Christmas miracle. Or I can just nut-up and be more mindful next week.

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MONDAY COUNT: 2840

SLEPT: 9pm-11pm, midnight-5am, 7 hrs

AM SNACK: 5:15am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1 : 7:45am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2 : 9:45am, steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1:15pm, beef patty, chicken soup, momma salad, 580 cal

DINNER: 6:30pm, lemon sole, asparagus,  poppa salad with dressing, 750 cal

EVENING SNACKS: 7:15pm, popcorn, peanut butter pretzels, 2 kids granola bars +/-900

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TUESDAY COUNT: 2970

SLEPT: 9pm-5am,  8hrs

AM SNACK: 5:15am,  iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal


BREAKFAST 2: 11am, fruit smoothie,  450 cal

LUNCH: 1:15pm, chicken meatballs, steamed string beans, lentil curry, pickles, 650 cal

PM SNACK: 3pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

PM SNACK: 5pm, poppa salad with dressing, 200 cal

DINNER: 6pm, vegetarian dim sum, ice cream, +/- 1200 cal
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WEDNESDAY COUNT: 3335

SLEPT: 9pm-4:45am, 7.75 hrs
Couldn't sleep, the late night eating wasn't so much from hunger but the emotional reaction to the shooting in California.

AM SNACK: 5am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 9:45am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal


BREAKFAST 2: 10:45am, Greek yogurt with honey, almonds, vanilla, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1pm, Chinese greens, pork meatballs, chicken ramen, water, +/- 800 cal

PM SNACK: 3pm, momma salad, 100 cal

DINNER: 8pm, chipotle burrito, ice cream, diet coke, 1425

EVENING SNACK: 11:30pm, bowl of cornflakes and milk, handful of animal crackers, +/- 400 cal
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THURSDAY COUNT: 3100

SLEPT: 12:30pm-5:30am, 5 hrs

AM SNACK: 5:45am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 10am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11am, steel cut oatmeal 450 cal

LUNCH: 12:45pm, bacon and poppa salad with dressing, 440 cal

PM SNACK: 2:45pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

PM SNACK: 5pm, cashews, 340 cal

DINNER: 7:30pm, shrimp dumplings, chicken starry with rice, water, cookies, +/- 1400 cal
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BIKE CREDIT: 630
FRIDAY COUNT: 2620

SLEPT: 11:30pm-4:30am, 5 hrs

AM SNACK: 5:00am, 150 mg caffeine, water

BIKE SNACK: 6:15am, homemade granola bar, 290 cal

AM SNACK: 8:15am, snippet of wholewheat bagel and cream cheese, small apple juice, +/- 100 cal

BREAKFAST 1: 9:15am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11:15am, Greek yogurt with honey, almonds, vanilla, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1:30pm,sautéed chicken and mushrooms, and poppa salad with dressing, 750 cal

PM SNACK: 3m,freshly baked chocolate chip banana bread, +/-500 cal

DINNER: 5:30pm, hot dog, fries, ice cream, +/- 1000 cal