How organic growers will save us.
The great problem solvers
Humans are successful because there is no other creature or AI machine which comes close to our ability to analyse and solve problems.
The population explosion
We all have a problem that in the last hundred years the human population trebled and in the hundred years before it trebled again.
One reason the population exploded was our success in overcoming infectious disease which killed four out of every five babies borne.
On a geological time scale, in a flash we have gone from a population of under a billion to over eight billion and we all have to eat.
Finite resources
The Earth has not got any bigger and virtually every piece of available land suitable for food production has been used.
Improved efficiency
We thought we had solved any food crisis by improving the efficiency of food production which has amazingly increased faster than the dramatic increase in population.
We produce enough food overall to feed the entire global population.
Creating technologies easier than changing society
There are people starving because we are not as good at creating equitable societies which contrast badly with our skills at developing technologies.
But progress is typically a two steps forward and one step back as we overcome snags with our new technologies.
Deficiencies in modern food
The snag with modern food is that it may be hygienic, triple wrapped in plastics, but it is inert lacking the microbes which form our gut-brain which regulates our appetite so we overeat and get fat and sick from chronic diseases – overweight, diabetes, heart attacks and dementia caused by the wrong fat in the wrong place stemming from overeating.
Why we overeat
Why do we overeat? Because of the lack of beneficial microbes in our gut. That regulate our appetite.
Modern food may be hygienic but it is deficient in the essential beneficial microbes.
Beneficial microbes come from our food
As these microbes live in our food and feed our gut which controls our appetite we can call this gut-brain food.
The good news is that we know how to breed these beneficial microbes – we have the technology which we we are very good at but lack the skills in creating societies which work for the benefit of the community.
Short life and dynamic equilibrium
These beneficial microbes, in gut-brain food, have a very short life, there may appear to be a stable population but they are continuously breeding and dying, what we like to call dynamic equilibrium.
Creating a new industry
This means we need to create a new industry of local growers breeding the beneficial microbes that go into gut-brain food.
This is not a technological problem, we know how to breed beneficial microbes, it is a social problem – changing the way our society works so the technology we develop works for the benefit of the community and not just a few mega-corporations.
Local versus centralised
The amazing increase in food production has, in part, come from centralised production with just a few mega corporations managing the bulk of food production whereas breeding beneficial microbes require a decentralised local industry of small scale growers.
This is not, in itself a major problem, there are many growers both organic and regenerative farmers who can grow the plants that contain the beneficial microbes.
Local growers already exist
They exist right now, we just have to change the way the system works to take advantage of their skills and dedication.
Changing the system is the difficult challenge not developing new technologies.
These are already highly skilled and dedicated growers who would welcome the opportunity to help their local community fight the battles against this modern curse of the epidemic of chronic disease.
Dedication does not pay the bills
They may be dedicated growers but they still need to pay their bills and it costs money and time to set up gut-brain food production facilities and for that they need paying customers.
I know how to promote the benefit of eating gut-brain food to the public who would certainly be willing to pay for gut-brain food so they don’t get fat and sick and have their legs chopped of from diabetes.
The chicken and the egg
But what is the point if there is no local growers where they can buy their gut-brain food.
We have a classic chicken and egg situation, how do we break that deadlock?
The solution – show you care
Here’s how and it is pretty simple.
I have set up on my website a registration page where growers can register to say they would be willing to set up gut-brain facilities as long as they could be assured there were enough local people willing to buy gut-brain food.
Simultaneously people who are are not keen on being fat and sick, or not that anxious to have a foot amputated from diabetes, can register.
Linking consumers and growers
Then I can start the process of linking growers with consumers and us humans can get back to what we are good at analysing problems and finding solutions.
