Farming: We'll miss it when it's gone!

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Thursday, 01 February 2007

At a time of increasing alarm about climate change, there seems an unbelievable shortsightedness in allowing the farming industry to wither and die. Fifty years or so hence, when energy has become a precious commodity and we recall with horror how strawberries once came so decadently from New Zealand to fill our supermarkets, or prawns were shipped to Thailand for peeling, we will turn to the countryside that surrounds us and ask - urgently - where is the food we need? Where are the producers?

Source: Melanie Reid, The Herald. For full article go to
The Herald