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How to make food.
It’s very easy to make food. Take some seeds or baby animals, add some of nature’s resources, like soil, grass, air, water or sunlight plus a few processed ingredients like animal food, fertilisers etc. Sit back, wait and sooner or later you will get some food, in the form of vegetables, fruit, grains, animals and so on. These foods can be combined with other foods and make even more food, like pies, sandwiches or jelly or vol-au-vents.
These basic ingredients that nature provides are the building blocks of food, which are vital requirements for us to carry on creating more food. A few weeks ago, I was talking about how there’s enough food in the world. You can read the article here, it explains how there are enough calories in the world to feed everyone, we just have trouble getting the right people get the right food.
WE’RE RUNNING OUT!!!
Only joking, we’re not running out, although people have been very scared about that idea for a long time. If you skip back a couple of hundred years you’ll find a chap called Reverend Malthus, an Englishman who came up with the outrageous idea that population will grow at a faster rate than our food supply will. He had a point, there have been huge struggles to produce enough food to feed the UK’s citizens, especially during the wars of the 20th Century. We have enough food at the moment, but the population is…