In Whose Interest?
On one side of the argument are those who see the future in terms of US-style factory farms, enormous mechanised food production centres where tens of thousands of animals live under the same roof. The sales pitch is pretty basic: cheap food. For the organic lobby and farming traditionalists, such plans provoke horror.
It almost sounds as though smaller scale, less efficient farmers have a horror of the competition offering cheaper food and that is the reason they object.
Comments
Where are you on all this?
TE - I'm just weblogging things that interest me, I couldn't possibly say for professional reasons.
Posted by: jameshigham | January 31, 2011 4:17 PM
The price a farmer gets for beef and lamb, she explains, is now nearly the same whether it is organic or not.
I really find this hard to believe. I used to occassionally buy her beef direct occassionally, and it's far more expensive than supermarket beef.
Posted by: Tim Almond | February 1, 2011 12:02 AM