Source: The Daily Telegraph

PIGS kept in tiny cages, chickens fed antibiotics, tomatoes that won’’t ripen and apples stored for months before they hit the supermarket shelves.

It sounds like the stuff of sci-fi, but in fact, these are the realities of global food production, where farm-fresh food is increasingly difficult to source.

With the vast majority of fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish now produced by multinational agribusinesses, many consumers feel they are losing touch with the source of what they eat.

“People feel insecure about their food sources, and there are a range of reasons for that,” explains organic farming supplier Frances Michaels, from Queensland-based group Green Harvest.

“More and more people are suffering ill health, there is evidence that cancers from pesticides are going to increase, and there’s a general environmental and green movement that is encouraging people to take responsibility for the impact that they’re having on global warming.”

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