are used to supply animal feed. If we didn’t have to grow crops to feed our livestock, could our food system be much more resilient?Provocatively, Monbiot’s vision is to make meat farming totally redundant, to, allow wolves to roam the land as top predators and for natural balance to follow suit.
“Food so disconnected from nature will be deficient in the essential micronutrients that maintain our bodily systems”even be nutritious? The science is still emerging but common sense must prevail. Consider the rapid rise in obesity since the 80s – generally, chemically processed foods aren’t good for us.
Of course, the current inefficient and unsustainable food system will struggle to support more than 10 billion people on a hot, resource-stressed planet so we do urgently need a step-change in how we feed the world.In the future as space becomes even more limited, food production will no doubt become more entwined with urban spaces.
As a biologist and an environmental journalist, my gut instinct tells me the focus of this documentary is all wrong. Surely, the crux of any ecologically-sound solution lies in reconnecting with where our food comes from, valuing every morsel and restructuring the unsustainable food chains?
And I'm just listening to vegan GeorgeMonbiot omnivore JoannaBlythman and SusFoodTrust discuss this in more detail at ORFC orfc2020
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