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The "flash drought" that came out of nowhere this summer in the US High Plains, afflicting Montana and the Dakotas the worst, has already destroyed more than half of this year's wheat crop, going by some recent field surveys. Considering that the region is now one of the top wheat-growing regions in the world, the damage is very notable.
These so-called flash droughts are expected to become considerably more common over the coming decades as the climate continues warming and weather patterns continue changing.
[...] Something that's interesting to note here is that 2011, only 6 years back, was actually one of the wettest years on record in eastern Montana. Those sorts of rapid swings between extreme precipitation and flooding on the one hand, and extreme flash droughts on the other, are only going to become more common from here on out. Eventually, most of the agriculture in the region will have to cease.
Grist calls this a Cereal Killer.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by frojack on Thursday August 10 2017, @07:33PM (2 children)
98% of the gluten whiners are indeed talking about the fad.
The fad is something of a self fulfilling prophesy.
You see a fad, you jump on the band wagon.
You avoid wheat like it was death.
Gradually your gut loses the ability to digest wheat. (not just gluten - all of the wheat).
You eat some wheat, fart and bloat a bit, attributed it to gluten intolerance.
Go back to eating gluten free smug that you are now a member of the in crowd.
Hint: Its temporary. You'd have as much problem digesting North American Wheat if you
had been raised on a diet of UK wheat, or Australian wheat. Your gut will reacquire the ability.
But you'll be way less cool.
Only 0.18–1.2% actually have celiac disease.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @07:55PM
Eating grains is weird anyway. Why not eat real food like meat, vegetables, nuts, and fruit? Leave the grains for when you are really desperate, then the insects for being really, really desperate. They shouldn't be a staple food. Then again I don't enjoy sugary deserts either so maybe that is just my taste.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday August 10 2017, @10:05PM
Sorry, but it doesn't necessarily work that way. (I'm a single data point, so I need to say "necessarily".) For totally other reasons I stopped eating wheat for around a decade. So much so that my sister who has celiac and ends up in the hospital if she eats something that's been cut with a knife that has been used to cut bread, could eat the same food I do. Then for other reasons I started eating wheat again, not just wheat, but actually refined gluten as well as wheat germ and wheat bran. This caused **NO** digestive problems except for a few days of rather loose bowels...too much wheat bran.
So you don't necessarily become wheat intolerant just because you don't eat it for awhile.
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