Opinion: We built a ‘better’ food system. The cost: It couldn’t handle a pandemic.

WASHINGTON POST • February 8, 2021

Why don't we pay as much attention to the benefits of resilience as to the benefits of efficiency? We tend to get good at what we can measure, and it's easy to produce numbers that support efficiency, such as crop yields per acre. Resilience cannot be easily measured, though. ~ Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food”