"The Minnesota Diet"

2018 Anders, Charlie Jane (b. 1969). “The Minnesota Diet.” Illus. Laura Callaghan. Slate (January 17, 2018). https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/the-minnesota-diet-a-new-short-story-by-charlie-jane-anders.html. For a response, see Christopher Wharton, “Can We Insulate Ourselves from Food Shortages,” Illus. Laura Callaghan. Slate (January 18, 2018)). Can we insulate ourselves from food shortages? (slate.com). Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 225-39. PSt 

Satire on the failure of high-tech systems. Anders is a transgender author. Wharton is assistant dean of innovation and strategic initiatives at ASU's College of Health Solutions. He is also a Senior Sustainability Scientist and faculty coordinator of the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.