Is there a coming US food crisis?

Most Americans can’t imagine their favorite restaurant just being out of certain foods. But the threat is closer than we think. It is difficult to imagine that the mighty United States could face threats to its seemingly abundant supply of grocery store and restaurant offerings. America has led the world in creating the modern industrial food system (known as “the Green Revolution”) and remains the world’s top food-exporting nation. Yet economic and logistical fractures have become visible, threatening to burst this illusion of plenty in a matter of moments. America’s farms have been quietly disappearing for decades, and productive farmland...