{"id":575,"date":"2009-08-17T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/radical-food-rethink-for-britain.html"},"modified":"2009-08-17T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:19:36","slug":"radical-food-rethink-for-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/radical-food-rethink-for-britain.html","title":{"rendered":"Radical Food Rethink for Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ion.ac.uk\/archives\/262_british_food.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ion.ac.uk\/images\/membership\/archive\/18.2%20Summer%2005\/british_food1.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=158 height=122 border=0><\/a>\nAccording to Peter Griffiths in Scientific American, 10 August 2009,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=britain-wants-radical-ret\">\nBritain wants &#8220;radical rethink&#8221; on food production<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nLONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Britain must find ways to grow more food while using less water, energy and fertilizers to help feed a growing world population and offset the effects of climate change on agriculture, the government said on Monday.\n<\/blockquote>\nOK, that makes sense.\nBut where&#8217;s the radical part?\n<blockquote>\nFarmers will have to adopt new methods to grow bigger crops while being more careful with increasingly valuable commodities such as water and fuel for machinery and fertilizers, Benn said.\n<\/blockquote>\nOK, less water, fuel, and petrochemical fertilizers; good.\nBut why a few farmers growing bigger crops?\nAs\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ion.ac.uk\/archives\/262_british_food.html\">\nThe Institute for Optimum Nutrition<\/a> points out,\n<blockquote>\nGood food seems to have been erased from our cultural identity, yet Britain was once considered the gastronomic centre of the world.\n<\/blockquote>\nI would bet Britain didn&#8217;t do that by cranking out bigger crops.\n<p>\nHow about more small farmers, as well, plus urban gardens?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Peter Griffiths in Scientific American, 10 August 2009, Britain wants &#8220;radical rethink&#8221; on food production: LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Britain must find ways to grow more food while using less water, energy and fertilizers to help feed a growing world population and offset the effects of climate change on agriculture, the government said on [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8,42],"tags":[1874,544,2775,1754,1877,1875,1876,2791],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","category-food-and-drink","tag-britain","tag-fertilizer","tag-food","tag-fuel","tag-institute-for-optimum-nutrition","tag-petrochemicals","tag-scientific-american","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-9h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}