The dataMoving beyond speculationFortunately, beyond just coffee break speculation, there’s data we can bring to answer this question. This is based on a database of tasks associated with standard occupations — a global one, ISCO-08, containing 3,265 tasks for 427 occupations, and a Polish one containing nearly 30,000 tasks for about 2,500 occupations. But the ILO dataset covers occupations across the whole economy, not just food. To classify those related to the food system, we used Claude (Sonnet 5) to flag occupations in the food system. Where gaps were identified, occupations were added using the nearest proxy in the ISCO-08 data (e.g., ‘Messengers, Package Deliverers and Luggage Porters’ as a proxy for food delivery drivers)