Thanksgiving of the Future: What Climate Change Means for Your Plate

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The Wall Street Journal

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4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Thanksgiving often centers around a meal: turkey, sides and a lot of desserts. This year, many Thanksgiving staples are more expensive due to inflation; in the future, many of those staples will cost even more due to the effects of climate change. WSJ’s Alex Ossola looks into how environmental conditions, alongside technological advances, will change what makes its way to our Thanksgiving tables, and how our individual choices may spark new traditions. Further reading: The Trouble With Butter: Tight Dairy Supplies Send Prices Surging Ahead of Baking Season Record Turkey Prices Are Coming for Thanksgiving Lab-Grown Poultry Clears First Hurdle at FDA Sean Sherman’s 2018 op-ed in Time The Essential Thanksgiving Playbook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.0	This was my family's Thanksgiving almost 10 years ago in 2013.
0:30.0	My family loves Thanksgiving.
0:37.0	It's the one time of the year we all reliably get together.
0:41.0	As far as I can remember, the 2013 Thanksgiving was a pretty typical one.
0:45.0	The usual crew was all there, aunts, grandparents and friends,
0:49.0	and the menu had lots of our old standards.
0:52.0	There was turkey and stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes,
0:55.0	and a pepdo bismill colored savory jello mold known infamously as pink thing.
1:00.0	Just don't knock until you've tried it.
1:03.0	And then, to top it all off, way too many pies.
1:10.0	Give or take the jello mold, my family's Thanksgiving menu is pretty typical.
1:15.0	But recreating this exact meal in say 50 years might be a challenge.
1:23.0	That's because environmental changes are going to have a big impact on what we eat.
1:27.0	In fact, it's already begun.
1:29.0	We are already seeing the beginning of some of the climate change impacts
1:33.0	manifesting themselves around the world.
1:35.0	That's Monica Zurich, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford working on food systems.
1:41.0	With a huge drought that you guys are facing in the US with all the fires in California
1:47.0	and all the flooding that we now see around the world.
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