Author(s): Colin Tudge (Visiting Research Fellow, Centre of Philosophy, London School of Economics)

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At the start of the twenty-first century, food in the West is cheaper, more convenient and more plentiful than ever - but at what cost? Who is really in control of what we eat? What effect will the way we currently produce food have on our future?
Colin Tudge looks at the past, present and future of food production, and concludes that today's globalized, corporatized approach has misappropriated science, regarded farming purely as a business like any other and lost touch with what it was intended for: feeding the people. We must get back to seeing ourselves as a species and the world as our habitat, reawaken traditional, regional cuisines and re-root processes in the biological and physical realities of the land.

Only then can we take back control of our food from industrialists and financiers - and ultimately ensure the survival of humanity.