Almost 96% of the commercial vegetable varieties available in 1903 are now extinct.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), humans now rely upon just 14 species of mammals and birds to supply 90% of all animal-derived foods
Twelve plant crops account for more than three-quarters of the food consumed in the world, and just three—rice, wheat, and maize—are relied on for more than half of the world’s food.
Reliance upon modern varieties of rice has caused more than 1,500 local rice varieties in Indonesia to become extinct.