Replies to post #8379 on PEAK OIL - EPOCHAL EVENT OF OUR LIVES

[sumisu]

I just finished reading this article and it's scary.

"But we can't eat oil. A nation might have the financial means to buy energy or be blessed with energy resources within its borders, but if superbugs wipe out much of its cereal and other commodity crops and its livestock, its people will go hungry."

"Here's the problem with superbugs: you can't kill them with standard-issue antibiotics. They spread like wildfire through monoculture crops and livestock yards and kill with indiscriminate alacrity.

The only solution, poor as it is, is to kill every animal that might be infected--tens of millions or hundreds of millions in the case of African swine fever."

Ironically I have not directly had antibiotics for years other than in the food that I might be consuming!

Thanks

PS: My personal antibiotic is chicken noodle soup loaded with hot pepper. I will develop a vegetarian alternative with noodles.