I wonder how the cold of the Little Ice Age affected all these same foods? Or during the Medieval Warm Period? Doesn’t matter, this is All Your Fault
From turkey to cinnamon, here’s how the climate crisis is threatening our favourite Christmas foods
Many key ingredients for festive foods have been hit by climate change, causing yields to plummet or forcing farmers to introduce adaptations.
As Christmas approaches, supermarket shelves fill up with beloved products for festive meals: turkey, potatoes, cinnamon and chocolate.
But consumers may have noticed that costs for these traditional foods are a little higher this year, or perhaps that stock seems scarcer.
Many key ingredients for festive foods have been hit by climate change, causing yields to plummet or forcing farmers to introduce adaptations.
Here’s how the climate is impacting the global pantry and changing our Christmas meals.
Yeah, prices are up, thanks to post-COVID inflation made worse by the policies of Modern Socialist governments. Add in some serious bird flu, for which government’s culled way too many birds than was necessary, issues with beef, and more, and you get what’s going on. And, really, here in America which is not hyper-leftist like Europe (the article is in Euro News), there’s not much in the way of shortages. Turkeys are easy. So are potatoes and chocolate. Not sure about cinnamon, I have one shaker that I’ve had forever, use it on French toast.
From West African cocoa farms to cinnamon groves in Sri Lanka, climate pressures are hitting both availability and price, according to a new report from The Weather Channel.
Cocoa, vanilla, cinnamon, and sugarcane are among the world’s crops most susceptible to climate change.
Vanilla production is centred in Madagascar, where it is at the mercy of cyclones and heatwaves.
They’ve always had to deal with these throughout the Holocene period, and since the last glacial age. It’s called weather. Shit happens
Drought reduced UK onion yields by 30 per cent in 2023, while the Pacific Northwest of the US, a major onion-producing region, saw an 8 per cent drop in 2021 due to severe heat.
Those same onions in the Pacific Northwest saw normal to above normal yield in 2024 and 2025. Huh.
Prices for turkeys are also indirectly affected by soaring gas bills, which are making the running of incubators for chicks more expensive.
Well, thanks to all the leftist governments making the gas more expensive. Things will be fine, folks. Just a bunch of climate nags nagging in cult.
