European Food Agencies worry that the world supply of food for human consumption is increasingly becoming an issue for concern with regard to its ability to be produced in years to come.
Modern farming, food processing techniques and legislation have so radically changed the face of the food supply chains around the world that the old model of small producers using their skill and resources to produce on a local scale no longer works.
An indigenous population can no more assume the resource of local products or crops to supplement their feeding habits when all else fails, as these self same goods are now scooped up into some multinational hopper or rendered untenable on the basis of access, economy, scale or legislation.
Years of political meddling in the food chain have created environments where it is rare or indeed illegal, for many peoples to be capable of feeding themselves, their families and local communities.
For example, EU laws define where people can fish, how much they can catch and what must thrown back dead into the sea rather than used for local benefit.
EU coffers pay farmers to leave good land empty of crops so that other less fortunate countries may compete upon an artificial and far less efficient playing field.
Wonderfully productive cows must be held back from producing milk that exceeds their quota and the traditional by-products of local cheeses, butters, yogurts and creams are forcibly curtailed as their production does not fit the desired political model.
A student of modern EU food legislation will know that these issues are but the tip of the iceberg and yet the European Food Agencies continue to believe that even more legislation is the solution to any food shortages of the future.
New laws on waste food management are very much to the fore of their agenda at present we are lead to believe, with ideas such as can foods wasted in one marketplace be safely served to another, would new portion sizes or packaging solve the problem, could setting Food Producers waste usage targets create a solution.
Reports also infer that European food legislators are even considering the reintroduction of the food waste "Pig Bin" an age old practice of recycling food waste through pigs to ultimately return to the table as pork.
This practice was banned under EU legislation on the grounds of food safety, now with a different hat in place it may be reintroduced as a beneficial food wastage measure.
Could this be a sign that the European Food Agencies are slowly realising that their "solutions" in one field of food use are now creating part of the "problem" in others.
Their dedicated drive to creating safe food and economic efficiency throughout the European Community using legislation as its tool has sadly lost sight of the wider picture of how nature intended food to be produced and sadly the result is now beginning to show itself by a potential shortage of supply.
There is no doubt that the European Food Agencies proceed with the highest principles of intent but sadly many farmers, fishermen, food producers and consumers in the UK particularly, believe that European Food Agencies solutions are now becoming a problem.
Hobson Tarrant
Modern farming, food processing techniques and legislation have so radically changed the face of the food supply chains around the world that the old model of small producers using their skill and resources to produce on a local scale no longer works.
An indigenous population can no more assume the resource of local products or crops to supplement their feeding habits when all else fails, as these self same goods are now scooped up into some multinational hopper or rendered untenable on the basis of access, economy, scale or legislation.
Years of political meddling in the food chain have created environments where it is rare or indeed illegal, for many peoples to be capable of feeding themselves, their families and local communities.
For example, EU laws define where people can fish, how much they can catch and what must thrown back dead into the sea rather than used for local benefit.
EU coffers pay farmers to leave good land empty of crops so that other less fortunate countries may compete upon an artificial and far less efficient playing field.
Wonderfully productive cows must be held back from producing milk that exceeds their quota and the traditional by-products of local cheeses, butters, yogurts and creams are forcibly curtailed as their production does not fit the desired political model.
A student of modern EU food legislation will know that these issues are but the tip of the iceberg and yet the European Food Agencies continue to believe that even more legislation is the solution to any food shortages of the future.
New laws on waste food management are very much to the fore of their agenda at present we are lead to believe, with ideas such as can foods wasted in one marketplace be safely served to another, would new portion sizes or packaging solve the problem, could setting Food Producers waste usage targets create a solution.
Reports also infer that European food legislators are even considering the reintroduction of the food waste "Pig Bin" an age old practice of recycling food waste through pigs to ultimately return to the table as pork.
This practice was banned under EU legislation on the grounds of food safety, now with a different hat in place it may be reintroduced as a beneficial food wastage measure.
Could this be a sign that the European Food Agencies are slowly realising that their "solutions" in one field of food use are now creating part of the "problem" in others.
Their dedicated drive to creating safe food and economic efficiency throughout the European Community using legislation as its tool has sadly lost sight of the wider picture of how nature intended food to be produced and sadly the result is now beginning to show itself by a potential shortage of supply.
There is no doubt that the European Food Agencies proceed with the highest principles of intent but sadly many farmers, fishermen, food producers and consumers in the UK particularly, believe that European Food Agencies solutions are now becoming a problem.
Hobson Tarrant
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