George monbiot writes: A food recession is under way. Biofuels are a crime against humanity, but – take it from a flesh eater – flesh eating is worse.
While half the world wonders whether it will eat at all, I am pondering which of our endless choices we should take. Here the price of food barely registers. Our shops are better stocked than ever before. We perceive the global food crisis dimly, if at all. It is hard to understand how two such different food economies could occupy the same planet, until you realise that they feed off each other.
