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I cook 80% of the dinners we eat as a family already. I applaud the sentiment (its pitiful if one spouse NEVER makes dinner) but it's pretty out of touch.

"Everyone should just decide what they want to eat and leave everyone else to do the same."

Ummm, that would lead to a massive collapse of the earth's ability to sustain life and the starvation death of billions of people over the next century or so. I vote for the forced normalization of our consumption habits that prices in the true cost of petroleum. Gordon's approach might be ham handed but it's way better than doing nothing.

Everyone is going to have to get used to fact that the human race is going to need to make some RADICAL changes in how we eat, work, live and travel. This means you.

"What about products that just aren't available naturally in the UK, like chocolate or pistachios?"

Its statements like this that expose the fundamental lack of understanding of what we're up against.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind... - John Donne

the beans would be done in a pressure cooker in about 30 min.