This is an interesting article on Sunday Times today:
Why don’t we grow our own food?
and here are some thoughts of mine stemmed from this article.
The main points that we need to refocus in Irish Academia and Irish food industry are these:
1. train new people/scientists on how to produce high quality food; these courses do not need to be Uni degrees but short courses for all ages and backgrounds. You do not need to be a rocket scientist to grow food!
2. establish initiatives to inform/train the general public to eat more seasonally and more healthy
3. support the local companies by changing our attitude that the cheapest food can do the job! Cheap food means corporation food grown artificially and having traveled many miles. We need to start labeling the food sold in the SM with food miles! In order to grow an environmental mentality for the Public.
It's a complicated problem and needs the collaboration of many players in a synergistic way! But only benefits can be ripped from such an initiative!
