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I really enjoy how his skepticism is so strong in the book when explaining why so many popular 'solutions' for food problems are just not possible with our current means. Still the author keeps the optimism that our ingenuity will provide solutions in the future. Also I enjoyed the strong arguments against 'trending' diets as we have seen humanity has strongly benefitted from a wide variety of real foods

Learning the economics of food production relative to GDP was interesting and my main takeaway is that figures can be so misleading around energy costs and importance of food in the economy that saying only 1% of the GDP is so wrong and wouldn’t account all the interconnected systems around food production and consumption.

I find it equally interesting the analysis of meat production and consumption for humans. It’s has some depth on topics such as the social, economical and environmental factors that surround beef, poultry, and even fish with a good reflection that as population grows, it’s gonna be difficult to get rid of some costumes around meet consumption

It’s fascinating to learn all the figures around energy efficiency of crop productions. Photosynthesis is a complex process where humans have rarely made any significant improvements and instead our concerns are mostly focused on water and nitrogen requirements for plants

We should stop demonizing wheat and cereals in general as this staple foods are fundamental of healthy societies and it’s illogical to think humans can achieve more just by foraging and hunting

I’m fascinated reading quantitative history of food. The author makes it so interesting the argument of why farming and domestication of animals was the only way for humanity to develop. In contrast with other authors, here the focus is the numbers behind the macromolecules and energy needs of people.