José Andrés
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first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
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But I'm worried that day that may be happening and that's not science fiction.
No, it's not science fiction.
The one day we wake up, remember America, the richest country in the history of humanity. With the most talent in the history of humanity. American talent and talent that came from overseas. With inventions, with... Wow. Looking at the stars and dreaming about going to the moon and Mars and who knows what else.
You know, I'm just worried we are taking food for granted in the way that not too long ago, America ran a baby formula for babies. The United States of America had no baby formula for every American family to provide baby formula to their children. And that seems, it's a little thing, but was an issue. It became an issue. And we could read it on the press, but this was real.
Families with money, no problem. We could get it. Somebody will bring it from overseas. But poor families, they were having a hard time finding that baby formula. That only tells me that we take food for granted. And that's why I've been always asking that we need to have a national food security advisor near the ear
of the president of the United States near the president of every country to make sure that food is not an afterthought, but food is something we give it more importance.
Well, I think we have a real hard time imagining things going badly when things aren't going badly. When things aren't going badly, like right now, we concentrate on getting more. I want more stuff. I want more of this. I want more of that. I want to get better. I want to make more money. I want to be more famous. I want to be more popular, whatever it is. But all it takes is one super volcano.
All these things that you're saying, these are all possible. War, famine, disease, pestilence, all that stuff's possible. But you know what else? One super volcano. Yellowstone. Yellowstone blows every 6,000 to 800,000 years, and it's a continent killer. If it goes, the whole world's fucked. We have nuclear winter for decades.
Like, who knows how long it lasts with the dust in the sky and there's going to be no crops. And people are just going to starve to death. There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it. If it blows... Most of us here are dead. Most of us. There was a super volcano, the Toba volcano, I believe it was 70,000 years ago. The thing brought humanity down to a few thousand people. And that could happen again.
But it's very difficult for us to think that way. It's very difficult for us to imagine... How things could be bad.
That means, people, that if you have a good bottle of wine that is very expensive and you are waiting for it to that moment in your life, remember what Joe Rogan said here. Drink it tonight. Drink it tonight. Don't keep it for tomorrow. Drink it today. Yeah.
I mean, it makes sense. Right. But I think you're right, too, that we should probably prepare for the worst and also figure out ways to mitigate it. Put some resources to figure out ways to mitigate the negative impacts of things like this. Like maybe have some massive food storage somewhere.
If we have enough money to have massive weapon storage, why don't we have enough money to have massive food storage? You know, food storage that could keep the human race alive for years while we figure things out.
100% agree. Obviously, we have seats. That's great, but if there's no sunlight. Correct. But we've done things. We have a library of seats. Okay. Not huge. We need a library of non-perishable foods. Totally. Somewhere underground. Again, as I said, we have only food for so many weeks produced around the world. Japan right now.
has like in the same way in the United States, obviously, we have the reserves of fuel, right? We have gas reserves in case something happens. And then the governments and the presidents use that reserve. In Japan, they have rice reserves. And those rice reserves, they are not barely ever touched. They're there because in case something happens, the government wants to have the possibility to.
Japan has been releasing those rice reserves for different reasons, because it's been the harvest of rice, they've not been as good as they were supposed to. It's a shortage of rice. The prices are going up. So it's a whole bunch of things. So they release those rice reserves, and they're able to control the price. But here, it's more than controlling the price. because inflation and other issues.
This is because the rise has not been flowing through the market in the ways the Japanese society is used to. So it's only food for thought. China has 7% of the farm land, but has 15% of the world population. We need to make sure that 7% of the farm land, but they have to feed 15% of the world population. When you see that China is very interested in buying land in Africa, in America.
that they have ports in many countries in Africa. Well, if you are the leader of China and you want to feed your people, what will you do to make sure that you don't only produce at home, but if you cannot produce enough at home, even every country should do more to be a better food producer on the land we have, America has done well on that front. But China is smart. They're investing overseas.
Why? Because they need to make sure that they keep feeding their population. It's a smart thing to do, especially in a... in a regime that we could argue is non-democratic regime and is authoritarian. Even every time I've been to China, my God, I can never wait to go back. I think it's a beautiful country to visit. It's a country that, as a tourist, I don't know, it's an amazing place to visit.
I cannot wait to go back because I think it's a very cool place. Good food, ancient civilization, great culture, great learning, but going back to food. Foodie is one guy called Briat Sabaran, 1826. A guy that died that year or the year after. I own a first edition of this book. I bought it when I was very young. I had to work like three months just to save the money to buy that book.
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