UK farms will not experience such an opportunity.Īt the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield, we have been considering how nutrient application occurs in the field and developing methods to reduce and reuse these nutrients.įirstly, nutrient loss from farm run-off and subsequent waterway impact. The programme cited one fantastic example in the Netherlands, where rewilding created five times more jobs from ecological tourism than were lost among farmers – but that model was in a more densely populated country, and located near a city. Such a drastic shift in the food industry has the potential to make way for environmental restoration – with Monbiot advocating the rewilding of vast areas of farmland across the UK – but the programme was severely lacking in consideration of the enormous damage this would inflict on farmer livelihoods, the economy and overall food security. There was a heavy focus on disruptive innovations with very ambitious roll-out and commercialisation timelines – with Monbiot claiming that proteins grown in labs by brewing microbes through precision fermentation will be around 10 times cheaper than animal protein as early as 2035. Overall I agree with most of the content of Apocalypse Cow. Jacob Nickles, Project Manager and Knowledge Exchange Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Food discusses Channel 4 documentary Apocalypse Cow, in which environmental campaigner George Monbiot argues that the biggest problem driving us towards global disaster is how we farm – and particularly how we farm animals. Support for refugee students and scholars.Conferences, events, visitor accommodation and weddings.Research centres, institutes and networks.
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