{"id":1765413,"date":"2022-12-06T20:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765413"},"modified":"2022-12-06T20:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:47:57","slug":"obama-white-house-chef-warns-rice-chocolate-and-coffee-will-nearly-disappear-in-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-white-house-chef-warns-rice-chocolate-and-coffee-will-nearly-disappear-in-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama White House Chef Warns Rice, Chocolate, And Coffee Will Nearly Disappear in 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-white-house-chef-warns-rice-chocolate-and-coffee-will-nearly-disappear-in-30-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765413&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Everyday food products will be hard to come by in 30 years because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a>, according to a chef who worked in the Obama White House.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent dinner event to promote regenerative agriculture, Sam Kass, who also served as White House senior policy adviser for nutrition, listed rice, coffee, wine, and chocolate as examples of popular food items that could become scarce in the decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of foods that we hold very dear to our hearts and largely take for granted are under a real threat,\u201d Kass said, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/food\/former-white-house-chef-sam-kass-says-products-like-coffee-rice-will-be-largely-unavailable-in-30-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to PEOPLE magazine<\/a>. \u201cAnd you\u2019re seeing in the future, we\u2019re on track for a lot of those to become quite scarce and some really to be largely unavailable to most people and others just significantly increased in cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kass teamed up last week with food brand Knorr to hold a \u201c$500 Dinner,\u201d an event in New York City meant to highlight dinner table staples that are in jeopardy without the widespread adoption of regenerative agriculture practices, which according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, focus on a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbf.org\/blogs\/save-the-bay\/2021\/08\/what-is-regenerative-agriculture-and-why-is-it-re-emerging-now.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">holistic approach<\/a>\u201d in farming to foster sustainable food systems and environmental health.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/readers-pass\/read-only-v2?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/readers-pass\/read-only-v2?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">TIRED OF THE LEGACY MEDIA\u2019S BIAS CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AND OBSCURING THE TRUTH? JOIN US.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dinner event celebrated World Soil Day, which took place on December 5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hola.com\/us\/food\/20221205340015\/white-house-chef-sam-kass-reveals-the-scary-future-of-food\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HOLA! USA reported<\/a> attendees were served dishes that mixed rice with seafood and truffles. Such a meal would cost $72 now, but $566 in 2050, when \u201cthe ingredients we rely on become even more scarce,\u201d Kass said.<\/p>\n<p>Kass is <a href=\"https:\/\/acre.vc\/#team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now a partner<\/a> at Acre Venture Partners, a firm that says it invests in \u201ccompanies creating fundamental change in food and agriculture in order to address large scale problems in human and environmental health.\u201d In 2017, the World Economic Forum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/americans-under-40-changing-world-2017-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">selected him<\/a> as one of its Young Global Leaders.<\/p>\n<p>At the dinner, Kass said he wanted to make rice a centerpiece of the dinner because it is very popular around the word and is also a significant emitter of greenhouse gases, per PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood and agriculture is the number two driver of greenhouse gas emissions globally and uses about 70% of the world\u2019s waters. It\u2019s the number one driver of deforestation, land use change. It\u2019s really at the center of a lot of these environmental issues,\u201d Kass said.<\/p>\n<p>Kass also said: \u201cFood and agriculture is the only real opportunity that we have to sequester enough carbon on the scale that science is telling us, within the time horizon that the science is saying we have, and that\u2019s really unique to food and agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday food products will be hard to come by in 30 years because of climate change, according to a chef who worked in the Obama White House. At a recent dinner event to promote regenerative agriculture, Sam Kass, who also served as White House senior policy adviser for nutrition, listed rice, coffee, wine, and chocolate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1765416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}