The modern food system is optimized for efficiency, not resilience.
Just-in-time supply chains, concentrated production, and long-distance transport create a system that is incredibly productive — until any link breaks.
A single railroad disruption, fuel price spike, or port closure can cascade through the entire chain within days. We saw this during COVID. We will see it again.
The average American grocery store has 3 days of inventory. The average city has 72 hours of food supply. Most people live within a razor-thin margin of disruption.
The structural answer is the same as everywhere else: decentralization. Local production, shorter supply chains, redundancy. The same principle that makes Bitcoin resilient applies to food systems. Distributed beats centralized when the central point fails.
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