The Transition Initiative, fundamentally, is all about food.  It’s also about more than that, but food quickly excites people when it’s withdrawn.  Cheap energy has allowed our society to cut a lot of corners in the farm-to-market business, and now we’ve come to expect cheap and abundant food as an entitlement.

So the question has to be asked: will groceries remain plentiful on store shelves in coming years, and if yes at what cost?

This is not a far-fetched speculation.  There have been numerous food-shortage riots around the world recently in places with previously ample foodstuffs.  And if it can happen there, the possibility exists that it could happen here too.

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