Can sustainable food systems help feed the world?
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A recent story in Foreign Policy calls attention to "Whole Foods Shoppers: Stop obsessing about arugula. Your 'sustainable' mantra -- organic, local, and slow -- is no recipe for saving the world's hungry millions." In it, Robert Paarlberg makes some valid points, but makes a much larger number of questionable claims.
Let's look at some of them.
