Eating to Extinction - The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save ThemDan Saladino's 'Eating to Extinction' is the prominent broadcaster's pathbreaking tour of the world's vanishing foods and his argument for why they matter now more than ever. Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these rice, wheat, and corn