There’s a great post up on Reddit that articulates something that I’ve been thinking for a while. Namely, that as people get hungrier, food won’t get more expensive — it’ll just get less nutritious and more toxic. Ultimately, the entire country will become a food desert , and even the suburbs will be the culinary equivalent of an inner-city ghetto where everyone eats junk food all the time, and where diabetes and other food-related health, behavioral, and psychological problems are rampant. The growing hunger of the public will not result in increasing food prices or food scarcity, it will see decreasing food quality. More hormone rich meat, genetically modified, chemically enhanced fruit and veg, and sub-par processed foods. This influx of “cheap” food, with the more expensive organic options being far out of the price range of the poor, will result in an epidemic of diabetes and other health […]