There were plenty of critics of the food system before the pandemic and the disruptions it caused prompted even more over-the-top accusations of total failure. The harshest critics have been those that have long focused on hunger. Never mind that hunger is caused by poverty not the food system, and poverty is the result of power and institutional failures, plus behavioral and structural limitations. The same critics who think it is easy to deliver to the world every single day of the year, 20 trillion calories of safe, healthy, nutritious, and affordable food have themselves long failed at fixing poverty.  Just looking at the U.S., the pandemic introduced an initial shock whereby food service sales plummeted by nearly 50 percent while...