A Quaker take on sustainable food - why it matters
Channel: visionontv
Date: 2014-11-07

English beef farmer John Turner talks of Quakers' long tradtion of integrity in business, one he hopes to help bring more directly to questions of food and farming practices.
He spoke on the eve of the UK Quakers and Business group's 'FOOD -There's a story behind everything we eat', an event intended to focus on making farms and food more sustainable.
"If you take the fundamental idea of where we go with food and farming, to use one planet's-worth of resources, to leave a legacy of farming that's fit for future generations that's, I suppose, the grand vision of where we'd like to go with this.
"The difficulty is where you go from where we are at the moment and, for a lot of farmers, that's actually quite a big jump,"
One solution is for farmers to shun the feeding of concentrated grains and proteins to their animals in favour of more sustainable approaches, as promoted by the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association (www.pasturefed.org), of which John is a founder member.