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Support FoE lobby for more home grown animal feed

TFR Members might like to add their voice to this Friends of the Earth lobby calling on Agriculture Minister Jim Fizpatrick to overhaul EU subsidies, so that UK farmers are encouraged to grow more animal feeds locally rather than relying on imported soya.
See here for easy on line action
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/biodiversity/press_for_change/planet...

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Permalink Reply by Mike Grenville on August 29, 2009 at 9:52

I have copies of this book for sale here: The Carbon Fields. In it Graham Harvey investigates the murky world of food and farming and reveals how global corporations have hijacked Britain's most basic source of life and health. This book explains how globally-traded grains have been used to promote global warming, obesity and ill-health. It shows how – by reclaiming our greatest natural asset – we can put ourselves and the nation back on the road to health and prosperity. This book will surprise you. You'll wonder how something so vital to your health and well-being can have been kept hidden. But once you know you'll be in a position to act. You can use your power as a citizen and consumer to reclaim this stolen treasure. At this time of threat and uncertainty our country needs it as never before.

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Permalink Reply by Rowena on August 29, 2009 at 21:24

The Carbon Fields is an excellent book - I bought two copies and gave one to a neighbour - his wife tells me he has become an eco-evangelist and won't stop talking about it! I returned and bought several more copies to give to people including the butcher in Ashurst Wood who sells lots of local meat, most of it grass reared (one of the key tenets of this book).

It throws up interesting points that challenged some of my previous beliefs - I had always felt a little guilty eating meat from a 'carbon' point of view, but this book describes how eating the right kind of meat encourages soil fertility, carbon sinking in the soil, and biodiversity. I now also have a new appreciation of the value of 'chicory'. I would encourage anyone who eats food to read this book ;-)
Rowena