JUST GROW TO EAT - the food of the future documentary

 

There are major issues that will determine where we get our food from in the future.

JUST GROW TO EAT is a 30-minute journey across north west England explaining developments in Britain’s countryside such that - with the supermarkets ruling – food imports continue growing at the expense of the environment, people’s health and weight, real green jobs and rural communities.

Watch it now at:- 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu3HJtbXvd8 

Soil scientist and board member at the Incredible Farm in Todmorden, Charlie Clutterbuck outlines how food can be grown locally. Then by combining this with £3bn subsidies –around what Britain once received back from the EU – to harder up people to buy healthy food this will boost local economies, thus creating more jobs on the land.

Produced by Charlie Clutterbuck, Dave Hackney and Mark Metcalf this film aims to encourage debate about food and farming and could be used by communities or online.

 

Here are some of the main points from the film for you to discuss and decide what demands to make within your own sphere of influence.

1. Cut down on Ultra-Processed Foods:.
   How can you tell what you’re eating is ultra-processed, and how can you reduce their use. Lobby governments to include in any future plans to reduce obesity.
2. Get more access to land for communities to grow more local food. Allotments are under more threat-with more building. Are there ways to protect them and promote growing  areas within building developments?
3. Open up debate about who owns the land and how we can have more say in what is grown there. E.g. is the use of 3 million acres of land in the UK for grouse shooting really a sustainable use of resources?
4. Promote the ‘old EU subsidy’ money such that it can be used to subsidise healthier eating.
   There is about £3Billion of previous EU funds that, similar to the US SNAP system, could be used to help poorer people buy locally produced better food.
5. Introduce ‘Seed’ funding (perhaps ex EU monies above) to stimulate new ‘Green’ economies, linking town and country, thus creating  ‘real’ green jobs growing more food.
6. Make sure you add ‘food and farming’ to any debates about greening the economy. Most industrial strategies talk about energy, cars, steel, batteries, emissions, and targets - but rarely a mention of the greatest carbon-capture and storage units - plants.