Gardeners should go back to the future, professor says
Tuesday 07 Oct 2008 - 13:35:00
A professor is calling for Britain to return to the good old days and cultivate their own food in their back gardens to preserve their future, it has been reported.
Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University, has suggested that people should grow their own produce and follow the example of The Good Life, a 1970s sitcom starring Felicity Kendal and Richard Briers, the Telegraph has reported.
According to the newspaper, Mr Lang''s campaign has remnants of the government''s Dig for Victory campaign during World War II where most of the population put on their gardening gloves and gardening boots to tend to their veg beds.
Mr Lang warned that a global food crisis is "looming" but can be solved by the "democratisation of gardening" and by encouraging everyone to grow their own produce.
People have to take more control of their food systems, he urged, because if you depend on Tesco, Sainsbury''s or Waitrose you are a consumer and "your food supply is under their control".
Following the Dig for Victory campaign, British imports between 1939 and 1945 were halved and the acreage of land used for the production of food jumped by 80 per cent, according to the BBC.
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