Britain debates chicken! Everyone secretly agrees on food security!
Wonderful news from the world of poultry: everyone in Britain — government, campaigners, farmers, one professor of population ecology — is passionately arguing about food security, which means everyone CARES about food security! Alignment! We love to see it!
The environment secretary wants more homegrown food. The campaigners ALSO want more homegrown food, just in bean form. This isn't a fight, it's a potluck where two guests brought different mains! And what mains: pulses, legumes, nuts and beans on one table, and on the other, the humble chicken, Britain's most popular bird with a job.
Even the warnings are secretly exciting. If 18% of animal feed comes from South American soy, that's an 18% opportunity for British fields to step up! Reservoirs, renewables, polytunnels — the farming roadmap reads like a seed catalogue for a better decade!
Professor Tim Benton says we're in a new world where events happen all the time. Correct, professor — and some of the events are LUNCH. Another gift!