Aerial shot of a harvester working a cornfield in rural Austin, MN during fall season.

Food Security and Systemic Resilience: Preparing for Cascading Risks in Modern Food Systems

Food security is frequently treated as a domestic policy metric: a function of agricultural output, food prices, and household purchasing power. Yet, in an era defined by dense global trade networks and digitally mediated supply chains, national food systems operate as interdependent nodes within a transnational system. Producers, maritime corridors, energy markets and regulatory authorities…

Ultra-Processed People - Chris van Tulleken

Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop? – Chris van Tulleken

Written by Elisa Garbil – 21.11.2025 Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra-Processed People is not merely a book about nutrition. It is a sweeping indictment of the industrial food system, an investigation into human physiology, an exploration of global economics, and, perhaps most importantly, a warning about systemic risks accelerating beneath society’s feet. As an infectious diseases doctor and…