![]() Poor weather has hit Moroccan growers particularly hard. In North Africa, meanwhile, farmers have battled severe droughts and an increase in the cost of seeds and fertilizers. The jump in prices is a knock-on effect from disastrous floods in Pakistan, frosts damaging stockpiles in Central Asia and Russia’s war in Ukraine. They’re used in everything from the base flavoring of curries and soups to fried toppings on hotdogs in the US, where futures trading in them has been banned since 1958 after an attempt to corner the market. About 106 million metric tons are produced annually - roughly the same as carrots, turnips, chillies, peppers and garlic combined. Onions are the staple of cuisines across the world, the most consumed vegetable after the tomato (technically a fruit). Poor diet quality can lead to different forms of malnutrition." “Diet quality is a critical link between food security and nutrition. “Simply having enough calories is not good enough," said Cindy Holleman, a senior economist at the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome. In Europe, empty shelves have forced UK supermarkets to ration purchases of some fruit and vegetables after a weak harvest in southern Spain and North Africa. Restrictions have also gone beyond onions to include carrots, tomatoes, potatoes and apples, hampering availability worldwide, the United Nations and the World Bank warned this month. The Philippines has ordered an investigation into cartels. Morocco and Turkey have halted some exports, as has Kazakhstan. Prices are soaring, fueling inflation and prompting countries to take action to secure supplies. ![]() And at the sharp end of that is the humble onion. But a combination of factors is now shaking up the vegetable market, the backbone of a healthy, sustainable diet. All rights reserved.The costs of wheat and grains have fallen in recent months, easing concern over access to some staples. Order James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: įollow New Discourses on other platforms: ![]() Join host James Lindsay for this episode of New Discourses Bullets where he makes it clear. ![]() We're told we want to make "safe" places where "everyone feels like they belong," which initiates the "desire for unity" under the banner of "Belonging." Then there are criticisms and struggles until there's solidarity with the Woke worldview, causes, and people pushing it. It's the backbone of what we all experience in the American Cultural Revolution () in DEI, ESG, SDG, and unconscious bias training at work and SEL at school. This model of cult programming might sound remote, but it isn't. Finally, through criticism, struggle, and study, unity with the socialist cult would be achieved. Mao Zedong wanted to thought-reform, that is, brainwash, the whole Chinese population, and he had a formula () for doing it: "Unity - Criticism - Unity." That is, he sought to induce in people a "desire for unity" so they would join his socialistic cult, and then once that desire was strong enough, criticism and struggle sessions () would begin to cement adherence. ![]()
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