{"id":73,"date":"2011-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodvale.co.uk\/fergus-byrne-pf-2\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:00:00","slug":"fergus-byrne-pf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/fergus-byrne-pf-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fergus Byrne Spring 11 People &#038; Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-body-1775791929565372035\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">Looking through this issue it is hard not to notice how political it is.  You might be forgiven for saying that food is a political hot potato \u2013  or you might not. But the fact that the production, processing, import,  export, marketing and transportation of food affects millions of lives,  means it\u2019s no surprise that people have strong opinions on how we deal  with the issues that inevitably arise around it. Lorraine Brehme, one of  the founders of Clipper Tea talks to Katherine Locke about the early  days of Fairtrade and how difficult it was to bring Fairtrade tea to a  wider market. Tim Crabtree, until recently Executive Director of Local  Food Links has been involved in aspects of the industry as diverse as  dealing with malnutrition in the Philippines, to making leek and potato  soup for Bridport school children. Michael Feasey, always passionate  about food and sustainability, finds a local fisherman who has a unique  answer to how to deal with the insane \u2018discards\u2019 regulations, as  highlighted in Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall\u2019s recent \u2018Fish Fight\u2019  campaign. Also in this issue, Simon Ford wrestles with his conscience  about eating eel, knowing that some people believe that we may face a  catastrophic species collapse, while Victoria Byrne meets a couple whose  efforts to live a low impact life may have lessons for us all. In a  recent Financial Times, Clive Stafford Smith, founder of the charity  Reprieve, said that everything is political. He talks to Franny Wood  about his memories of food, his anorexic youth and his view that  vegetarianism is probably a luxury of the privileged. At whatever level  the food industry impacts on our lives, it is hard not to have an  opinion, especially when viewing food production on a global scale. A  recent report from IGD, the international market intelligence  organisation working in the food and farming sector, suggested that if  every Chinese man drinks just one extra beer a week, this would require  231,235 hectares of annual barley production, the equivalent to a fifth  of UK barley production. Heaven forbid they have two extra beers a week.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through this issue it is hard not to notice how political it is.  You might be forgiven for saying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-editorials","tag-fergus-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}