Peak Ready:
Food

Most of our food is shipped hundreds, or even thousands of miles. Most of our food production relies heavily on petroleum-based products: fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, fuel for machinery and equipment, even plastics for packaging.

Unlike our grandparents, many of us do not grow much (if any) of our own food. We also don't often get our food from nearby farms or producers. If petroleum costs rise drastically, all that could change...

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