The Deadly Addiction to Cheap Meat: How the overuse of antibiotics on livestock is making us sick

[Gregorian]

9. In these numbers.

That's the part that's missing from your subject line. The elephant in the room that no one wants to see or talk about. In smaller numbers not only can we eat as much as we want whenever we want, but the food is good. Not cardboard carrots, plastic tomatoes.

I remember good food. Now you can hardly buy a lemon that isn't green. They can't even ripen fast enough for this many mouths.

Check out the Bosch-Haber cycle. It was invented during a competition in the early part of the last century to figure out a way to feed more people, because we weren't able to keep up with the number of mouths back then. And that was only a billion.