Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most humans were engaged in agriculture. Our relationship with nature was immediate. Within just a few generations, however, for many people across the world, their link with the land has been severed.<\/p>\n
Food now arrives pre-packaged (often precooked), preserved with chemicals and contains harmful pesticides, micro-plastics, hormones and\/or various other contaminants. We are also being served a narrower menu of high-calorie food with lower nutrient content.<\/p>\n
It is clear that there is something fundamentally wrong with how modern food is produced.<\/p>\n
Although, there are various stages between farm and fork, not least modern food processing practices, which is a story in itself, a key part of the problem lies with agriculture.<\/p>\n
Today, many farmers are trapped on chemical and biotech treadmills. They have been encouraged and coerced into using a range of costly off-farm inputs, from synthetic fertilisers and corporate-manufactured seeds to a wide array of weedicides and pesticides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most humans were engaged in agriculture. Our relationship with nature was immediate. Within just a few generations, however, for many people across the world, their link with the land has been severed. Today, many farmers are trapped on chemical and biotech treadmills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":122267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1031],"tags":[],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n