Question: What is the best food for the future? Do you recommend that we all grow or make this?

Emma Pilgrim answered on 15 Jun 2010:

Hi

This is a another tricky one! I am not sure what the single best food is as we need a balanced diet of fresh vegetatables/fruits, proteins and carbohydrates. I think as ominvores (eat meat and vegetables) we will still need to eat things such as chicken, beef, pork etc. Perhaps we could also eat some of the animals which have been introduced e.g. American Crayfish and now threaten our native species of crayfish.

On a less controversal note I do think it would be good if we could all be a bit more self sufficient and grow some of own food. I am a bit of a gardening fanatic though and I think that it is a good hobby as I keep fit and get food at the end of it. Ideally I would also love to own some chickens and maybe a duck (apparantly a good anti-slug device)!