Engineering360: "Study: Alternative foods are needed to ensure future food security"

Those 'same' scientists at the University of Cambridge told us back in the '70's that we would all be starving right now due to the population growth. Climate change means that northern Canada and Siberia will become the new 'breadbaskets'. We will adapt. 'Publish or perish' does have its unintended consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocalyptic-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-3/

Humans are not designed to eat at the bottom of the food chain. That's why insect larvae are staples only in the most impoverished subsistence cultures - given a choice, few would continue with that on more than an occasional basis. The processing required to make such foods reasonably edible and palatable would be ecologically inefficient, and the unprocessed nutritional content per unit of some of these is rather low. It makes more sense to expand access to a wider variety of existing foods (dragonfruit anyone?), and find ways to incorporate more carbon into the ecosystem.

Once the food was produced locally in the agrarian past history and there were inefficiencies in the production. The same things these "scientists" advocate as stress factors for large scale agriculture and distribution cause even greater disruptions to the local production. All the stress factors listed were the sources of great famines of past centuries. So they advocate returning to small scale production.

Just look at the countries where this happens now and if it wasn't for the handouts from relief agencies more countries would be in dire straights.

Weren't these "scientists" recently promoting the economy of scale?