Hello and welcome back to The Most Amazing channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking the Top 10 Popular Foods That
Might Soon Be Extinct!
Before we get into this list I want to ask you guys what your favourite food is ? My
favourite food is Indian food, although my favourite ingredient is probably rice, chestnuts
or chocolate.
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10 - Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups I said that to get you attention with a familiar
brand but things are much worse than just Reese’s pieces….
All peanut butter could be out by 2030 which would be pretty devastating not only for fans
of the candy, but for all lovers of a bar snack and a peanut in general.
No more PBJ sandwiches!
No more Peanut butter and banana …. While peanut production is okay right now, they
require very specific conditions in order to grow and as climate change continues on
its worrying trajectory, peanuts could be out.
Alabama, Florida, Georgia are all great Peanut Butter spots and they are continually experiencing
hotter summers which are affecting production.
We got a taste for this in 2011 when drought saw the price of peanut butter hike by 40%.
Not a food….but something we consume that is very popular – at number 9 we have Beer.
What is a life without beer.
I love beer.
I live for a cheeky flight of beer on a Sunday.
According to Eco Watch, though, beer is in jeopardy.
Say it isn’t so.
This is because of unstable water supplies.
Brewers need access to a lot of water and in the next 20 to 50 years, it is expected
that water will become even more difficult to come across.
While bigger brewers maybe be okay, smaller craft breweries may find it difficult to stay
afloat.
The problem with beer is two pronged – not only is water in dwindling supply – some
hops are also suffering.
8 - Bananas What this means for my enduring love of banoffee
pie, I dread to think.
It seems that in the United States alone, Americans
pound down 28 pounds of banana each year.
A banana is a total lunchbox staple…I love a good banana.
It seems though they are under threat by the killer Panama disease.
What a lot of people don’t know is that varietals of banana HAVE already gone extinct.
Back in the 30s at 40s American’s were eating Big Mikes, but they were obliterated by an
early ancestor of the Panama Disease.
Now we eat a breed of Banana called the Cavendish, but they are under threat from the modern
version of the disease….which is bad news…especially as by the time Big Mike died, Cavendish bananas
were already reared and ready… but these days we don’t have a successor.
Say goodbye to hummus, because chickpeas are dying out at number 7
I love love love chickpeas.
They are very versatile.
Firstly – I have an enduring love for hummus.
It is the most delicious non dairy dip there is in my opinion….okay… maybe tied with
Guacamole… but still…hummus is great.
Hummus is a very popular part of middle eastern and Mediterranean cuisine, as is the humble
chickpea in general.
Chickpea curries are some of my favourite Indian dishes – rustle me up a chana masala
and I am youuuurs.
Chickpeas have also become pretty popular with vegans too because chickpea water can
be used to replicate egg whites.
So….why are these beautiful legumes in danger?
Well the issue is that they take A LOT of water to produce and with world wide droughts,
especially in areas of chickpea growth, it just isn’t sustainable to frown them.
When I say a lot of water – chickpeas need 76 gallons of water for every ounce…which
is insane.
As a result, over the past ten years, chickpea production dropped between 40 and 50 percent.
Although you think that is a lot – for one beef burger patty, it takes 660 gallons of
water…which is actually and literally unacceptable.
Sorry Canada, but Maple Syrup is at number 6
Ever noticed how expensive real Maple Syrup is?
I have!
The reason is because it is tricky to farm at the best of times and it is getting even
harder.
In order to get maple syrup, temperatures need to be above freezing during the day and
then below freezing during the night – with the change in weather as a result of climate
change, this requirement is becoming harder and harder to pin down.
Areas currently primed for maple syrup production are struggling…and while we may be able
to find new areas suitable for growth that would be a costly move aaandd how long until
they are affected too.
Suddenly breakfast pancakes just got a little sadder.
Look, this is unlikely but I thought it worthy of a discussion at number 5 Beef
Beef and dairy farming is one of the biggest contributors to global warming as well as
deforestation.
As we discussed earlier, one burger takes over 6 thousand gallons of water to produce.
One pound of beef takes 1 thousand 799 gallons of water – which is roughly 10 years of
drinking water for humans.
In an age of drought and dwindling clean water it just isn’t sustainable – with amount
of food it takes to feed a cow – we may as well not bother and save that food to feed….ourselves.
A lot of the world is wisening up to these facts and statistics and a lot of people are
now going vegetarian, or cutting out meat including beef several days a week, which
is a better option for planet earth.
It is possible that if the world took responsibility and understood the grave reality of the beef
situation, we would take it off the menu.
Although with huge co-operations like McDonalds running a lot of the worlds wealth, perhaps
they would have a financial vested interest in stopping that from happening.
Perhaps a happier medium would be lab grown meat – but would that be the same as beef
as we knew it?
Winnie the Pooh is about to get a little hungrier as his staple is on its way out -
4 - Honey It is a bad time for honey bees out there.
Honey bees have been rapidly dying – something beekeepers have been noticing for nearly 15
years.
It seems bees are suffering from Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder – which is basically
when worker bees in a colony abandon the Queen which in turns causes the collapse of the
colony.
Since 2006, bees have been dying at an alarming rate with millions of hives lost each year.
Honey might well be the least of our problems, too - Honey bees used to do a stellar job
at pollinating other crops but now they are dying out which means that crop production
has been significantly harmed.
3 - Tuna I say Tuna, but actually this applies to a
lot of fish.
Marine life has been dwindling since the late 1800s – in the past 40 years marine life
has declined by 52 percent and large fish like tuna have seen a 90 percent decline.
The issue is unsustainable overfishing.
In order to make maximum catch and profit, fisherman are using ocean trawlers that trap
everything in their path.
Some of these fish aren’t useful or edible, so they are dropped back in the water, dead.
Other fish that are edible are caught before they reach sexual maturity so had no time
to produce offspring before they were caught.
With the rate of marine life decline and the rate of aggressive over fishing, we could
kill off the entire edible marine population by 2050….which is totally devastating.
This is why fish is pricy and why it is important to eat sustainable fish.
2 - Chocolate Say it isn’t so!
Fun fact about me…
I have chocolate every working day of the week at around 11am.
I would blame my mum but I enjoy it so much that actually maybe I should thank her.
Anyway, my 11sies could be gone for good and may just be a happy anecdote I tell my grandkids…..if
they show up.
It seems that the humble coca bean is in some serious danger – danger that could see it
off our shelves and decidedly far from our bellies as soon as 2020 which is only a year
away.
I hope that doesn’t happen and that future me is watching this video with a cup of tea
and some delicious chocolate!
The issue is that chocolate demand outweighs supplies and year after year this only gets
worse.
Over 70% of the worlds coca is produced in West Africa, which has been severely effected
by drought.
The other chocolate hub – south America – has experienced outbreaks of fungal diseases
including Frosty Pod which has been killing the coca trees.
The good news is that scientists are working on creating a breed of coca trees resistant
to Frosty Pod but the bad news is, until we solve the issue, chocolate is going to keep
getting more expensive.
1 - Coffee Devastating.
Coffee is one of the most universally consumed drinks and it is especially popular in the
Unites States of America.
Climate change is the number one threat to coffee.
It seems the climate institute has warned that is global warming continues on its current
trajectory then wild coffee could be totally extinct by 2080.
That is wild coffee…so what about coffee we can farm – well that is in danger too
– by 2050 it is expected that farmland is expected to be halved due to the change in
climate which not only effects weather conditions, but also abundance of crop destroying pests
and fungus.
Sure, not having a cup of coffee would totally suck – it is more than a drink – it is
a culture – but it would suck more for the 120 million people worldwide who rely on coffee
production to make their living.
WOAH so that was the Top 10 Popular Foods that might soon be extinct.
This list contains 8 things I absolutely love and 1 I love but I am trying not to….so
…. I for one hope it doesn’t come true….the issue is climate change and overfarming…so
hopefully the next generation are a little more conscious than the one that came before
me.
Don’t forget to let me know your favourite food.
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