A light at the end of the Covid tunnel?
On the programme, which asked how coronavirus is threatening food security, I pointed out that all the stories making international headlines in relation to the impact of the pandemic on food – milk being poured down the drain, plane loads of eastern European vegetable pickers licensed to travel to the UK to harvest salad crops, the hoarding, the scarcities – are reflective of the food system that exists, namely intensive, industrialised, globalised, damaging to the environment and public health and, above all, insecure and lacking resilience.
Author: Patrick Holden
Organization: Sustainable Food Trust
Year: 2020
Type: Blog article
Full text available at: https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-covid-tunnel/
Content language: English