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Meh.

The hippies were right.

Eat food your grandmother would recognise.

Eat it as unprocessed as practical.

Eat a lot of it raw.

But I bet where people have no choice (in prison, public hospitals, schools, on food stamps...) it will become compulsory.

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Or how about the billions more people we will have in the coming decades? Population growth in the global south in addition to crop destabilization due to climate change will be a crisis. This is one possible solution.

Eating "real" food may end up a luxury for most.

Not sure why are downvoted, You have made some valid points

It sounds like the real solution is to stop making babies.

Past experience shows that this does not happen until countries reach a certain level of wealth. We'll get there as a planet eventually.

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

My grandmother didn't live to 70.

Neither did mine, but she both smoked like a chimney and ate garbage. That seems to be common.

Yes, but isn't it predicted that the average life expectancy of the current generation will be less than that of the prior generations?

Probably many factors involved, but a 5 second search yielded "Life Expectancy Drops Again As Opioid Deaths Surge In U.S."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/21/5720803...

So maybe just stay away from the opiates when you eat your raw broccoli.