Why do most policy proposals and such from the Cult always result in more Government control over our lives and the economy? Why do they restrict out choice and freedom? Anyhow, who’s this “we” stuff?
Theresa Villiers : If we really want to fight climate change we need a national food strategy
When it comes to food, we are surrounded by an abundance that our ancestors could only have dreamed of.
One of my new colleagues at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) spoke about a farmer who described how, when he was a boy in the 1940s, his father had wept as he tore out his hedges to put more land under the plough as his contribution to the heroic efforts that fed this country.
Like millions who know hunger around the world today, their generation valued food as something so precious it should never be wasted.
Today, our food and drink sector employs one in eight of us, contributing more than £122bn to the UK economy, and exporting over £22.6bn of high-quality, high-welfare products prized by over 200 countries worldwide.
Yet amid such abundance, something has gone very wrong. As individuals, our demise is more likely to be hastened by our own poor food choices than the infectious diseases that brought down our forefathers. As a society, we have seen how poor land use can damage our country’s natural wealth. There is also growing concern about the amount of food which is wasted.
Somehow, this is all related to man-caused climate change, you know. Because the CoC interjects itself into everything. Because it isn’t about science, but politics
There has never been a better time for fresh thinking about the whole food system, from field to fork. That is why we have launched the first major review in 75 years, ably led by entrepreneur Henry Dimbleby, to inform a national food strategy that will guide efforts across government.
Huh. More government
Scientists’ warnings, such as the recent devastating reports from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, could not be clearer. Only a few months ago we saw the results of the most comprehensive assessment yet of the state of nature. It told us that up to a million species are facing extinction. In my lifetime, populations of animals, on average, have more than halved – a mere blink of an eye in evolutionary terms. This is not just a biodiversity issue; it is a human issue.
We have no choice but to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, or risk not only losing untold wonders of the natural world, but plunging whole regions into desperate poverty. Central to that is the need to rethink our relationship to land-use.
How’d Theresa Villiers, secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, get there? Because all Warmists are nuts, and they have to drag it into everything.
I want to ensure that our food system at home complements our efforts to ensure sustainable food security for the 9 billion people who will share this planet by 2030. This country can lead the way as we head into a year of international negotiations that will define global ambition for biodiversity, climate change, and our oceans.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Government telling you what you can eat and when, limiting what you can eat, telling farmers what they can grow. Surprise? You used to get gubmint officials advocating for mission creep for the sake of mission creep. Now they do it for Hotcoldwetdry.
