What Brought Us In Our

Present Predicament ?
“In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of
agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better
life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never
recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual
inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.”

~ Jared Diamond
“All disease begins in the gut”
It’s a quote attributed to the Ancient Greek physician
Hippocrates nearly 2500 years ago.

Every time we EAT or DRINK or expose ourselves to

chemicals and hormones, we are either FEEDING DISEASE
or FIGHTING it
 Going Organic ?
Large-Scale
Agriculture

Hunting and
Gathering
Effects of Food Revolution
MILLION OF YEARS 40 YEARS

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 History of Food Revolution
12000 BC
Neolithic: First Agricultural
Revolution started by the Natufians
in Fertile Crescent region
7000 BC
Agriculture reached Europe – Greece
and the Aegean – with evidence of
emmer and einkorn wheat
3500 BC
Irrigation was being used in
Irrigation
Natufianswas
in being
the Eastern
used in Mesopotamia
Mediterranean
Mesopotamiabegin(modern-day
harvesting
Iraq)
wild
grasses – this grinding tool dates
back to 12,500–9500 BC
 History of Food Revolution
800 AD
Arab Agricultural Revolution – the
Arab Empire introduced innovations,
improvements in irrigation
1100 AD
Maize or Corn, Beans and Potato
have been cultivated in Pre-
Columbian America
1700 AD
Second Agricultural Revolution –
The Arab
The seed
Empire
drillimproved
in the 1700’s
irrigation
– crop rotation, refrigeration,
systems
perfected
and introduced
by Jethro fertilizers
Tull preservation – from UK to USA
 History of Food Revolution
1900s
Automotive Revolution – advanced
the mode of transportation and
distribution of food
1920s
“Unlimited Fertilizer”, Ammonia
was first manufactured using the
Haber-Bosch Process in 1913
1940s
The Rise of Fast Food Drive-Thru –
The
Henry
first
Ford
McDonald’s
producedrestaurant
eight versions
was a product of the Car Culture
started
of cars in
before
1948the
by brothers
Model T of
Maurice
1908,
(“Mac”)
with which
and Richard
his nameMcDonald
became in
San Bernardino,
synonymousCalifornia.
History of Food Revolution
1960s
Seven Countries Study by Ancel Keys
– trying to connect that Cholesterol
causes Heart Disease
1970s
AHA recommended Low-Fat and in
1977, the first edition of The Dietary
Goals for the US was published
1980s
The Rise of LOW-FAT and FAT-subs

Ancel
The Bad
Keys
News
– Cover
– Cover
of Time
of Time
in 1961
in
1984
History of Food Revolution
1960s
Seven Countries Study by Ancel Keys
– trying to connect that Cholesterol
causes Heart Disease
1970s
AHA recommended Low-Fat and in
1977, the first edition of The Dietary
Goals for the US was published
1980s
The Rise of LOW-FAT and FAT-subs
2000s
Ending the War on Fat – Cover of
The COMEBACK of LOW-CARB
Time in 2014