Today in
Focus Series
George Monbiot on the growing global food crisis
and the degradation of our soils. Can the solution be found in the lab?
Presented by Michael Safi with George Monbiot;
produced by Tom Glasser and Axel Kacoutié; executive producers are Phil Maynard
and Elizabeth Cassin
Thu 2 Jun
2022 22.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 3 Jun 2022 04.19 EDT
When farming is degrading our soils and people
are still going hungry, is it time to change how we get our food?
“Ninety-nine percent of our calories come from
soil. Everything we are, everything we have built, everything in our lives
comes from the soil. Without it, we’re finished,” says the author and
environmentalist George Monbiot. “And yet, we treat it with extreme disrespect
and disregard.”
Monbiot tells Michael Safi how we need to start
appreciating the wonders of the soil beneath our feet. In his book Regenesis:
Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet, Monbiot argues we need to
pursue revolutionary ways of getting our sustenance. He argues that by using a
method called precision fermentation, where proteins and fats are produced in
breweries, we could feed the world and save our soils.
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