Learn why we need to change our modern food system so we don't get fat, sick and die young

 

 

My name is Bonnie Lewis, I am a director of Seedmart Australia, a company that supplies seeds to local growers.

 

I collaborate with Colin Austin, who conducts research on advancing technology for the sustainable production of healthy food.

 

I asked Colin what he thought about the blocking of the Hormuz Straight and the blocking of a third of global fertiliser supply. I could not believe what I heard when he said it was one of the best things that had happened in the battle for healthy food.

 

Stunned, I asked him to explain. This is what he said.

 

“I understand that oil is highly desirable, but it is not essential for life. Water and phosphorous are essential for life.

 

Hormuz is a warning sign that we have to change the way we grow food.

 

Water is essential because it is a liquid with tensile strength that can pull water up from the soil and into the plants, while phosphorous forms the backbone for DNA.

 

We rely on mining phosphorous and we only have a fifty-year supply. Worse, we are polluting our finite supply of fresh water with our phosphorous, causing giant plumes, as we have seen in South Australia and the Murray, but it is happening across the globe.

We have no option but to change, but we are just carrying on as if everything is normal. We need these warning signs to shake us out of our complacency.”

 

I asked him if he would write an article on how we have to change. He replied that he would write two articles.

 

He said it is no good telling people that modern food is making them fat, sick and die young. They will just think you are trying to sell them something and ignore you. In these days of disinformation, people don’t believe anything any more.

 

You have to explain, with genuine scientific backing, why modern food is causing harm. And remember that the food industry spends billions of dollars to convince people that its produce is healthy.