One might consider growing one's own food, but then must consider potential ground contamination, hormones in the water, heavy metals in the air, and potential cross-pollination with GM foods from next door. And even home-grown vegetarian food isn't perfect, because people with nut allergies are allergic to the nuts themselves, not some contaminant.
Best hope is probably to avoid processed foods, which is a good idea anyway...
just as today, the dawn of C21, is not such a bad epoch if you are one of the 10 percent (the global elite) who have security and affluence. if you live in Darfur, or if you're Maori, or even if you're a Chinese peasant, 1300 might well look like the good old days. not if you're European though :-) The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
