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Farming minister David Heath urges families to ‘ Grow their own ’, here at City Cottage we dig out an idea we had a while ago ...
Here at City Cottage we got a little dispondent when people continued to call us idiotic for saying we will have food shortages in the UK , and around the Western World .
David Heath , farming minister , said this week :
‘ With an increasing population , increasing demand not just in this country but across the world , we are going to have to increase food production .
‘ We made a huge mistake a few years ago when the idea got around that we didn ’ t need to produce in the agricultural sector any more , that we would be able to buy our way through whatever was necessary to feed the country .
‘ Once we used to “ dig for victory ”. There may come a time soon when we need to “ dig for survival ”.’
Needless to say , you ’ ll forgive us for saying ‘ I told you so !’
Some years ago we started a campaign called 52 meals to save the planet . The government said it was pointless , and the whole thing petered out . But spurred on , we are starting it again .
The fundamental idea behind 52-meals is to get people to grow enough food for just one meal a week , and the effects of this transformation will be to save not only an awful lot of CO2 but lots of energy , pollution and at the same time keep you fitter and fill your purse a bit too . If we all ate 3 square meals a day , this is 21 meals a week which , in a year , amounts to 1092 meals , the cost of which have rocketed in recent years . The UK has had the worst food inflation in Europe for the last two years .
Food inflation
According to the Mirror the following foods have increased in price :
• Bananas + 19 %
• Broccoli + 43 %
• Carrots + 18 %
• Apples + 8 %
• Potatoes + 3 %
• Onions + 16 %
• Tomatoes + 26 %
• Grapes + 18 %
• Milk + 6 %
• Eggs + 1 %
• Beef mince + 20 %
• Chicken + 6 %