Crazy like a squirrel!

This is pretty interesting:

http://www.badgersett.com/info/futureisnuts.html

This dude (Phillip A. Rutter, apparently) seems to think we can replace basically everything with hazelnuts and chestnuts and no one will be the wiser (Quote of the Day from Mark Shepard:
"[Y]our Cheetos will begin to be made from chestnuts and you won't even realize it." Yay!).

While this does all sound grand, and certainly things you only need to plant once are a lot better than things you need to plant and reap, plant and reap until you're all turn, turn, turned around, one's bullshitometer does tend to go off when handed such a panacea. Genetically modified hybrid hazelnuts take over the world! Also, aren't a lot of people allergic to nuts?

Regardless, I'll be happy to switch to a nicer kinder staple, since right now everything is made out of corn (really, almost everything, if you don't believe me go check out page 18-19 of The Omnivor's Dillema.)

Plus it will help with that argument that a vegetarian diet actually kills more animals than an omnivore one, as lots of animals are killed in the harvesting of crops (think giant threshers mowing down field mice). Of course it takes way more corn to feed a cow to feed me than it takes corn to feed me, so this argument is prima facie stupid, but still, every little bit helps.