Can you buy local?
Whether we like it or not change is coming to the way we buy food. Prices for foreign produced organic feed is already driving up the price of UK organic pork and poultry. Asian countries are getting richer and eating more meat and competing with the west for food traded on global markets, cheap food is rapidly becomming a thing of the past.
The BBC Food Programme on Radio 4 is currently investigating this and had a fascinating programme last week about the Fife Diet where a group of individuals in Fife were asked to spend the past year buying food produced locally. This is followed up this week with a look at how scientists are tackling the problem nationally.
You can hear the programme again here.
