Archived News

8th July 2008

Having spent hours with the ITV camera crew and the presenter Chris Choy Laurence had given a full and accurate account of the sustainable way in which both food and fuel can be grown in this country and around the World. 

When the News came on at Six and our farm was introduced as a 'biofuel farm in Surrey' whereas we are in fact a mixed beef and arable farm, not a good start!

We hardly saw Laurence, most of what he had said throughout the day had been cut and ITV had turned the item into it's own opinion piece and the facts were SO innacurate.  It's a joke really that this can be called The News.

By Ten O'Clock News the item was slightly longer (no more of Laurence or the true facts and figures) with Chris Choy standing in a field of maize (which is sold for breakfast cereal) saying that an acre of wheat can produce thousands of loaves of bread compared to litres of fuel - he had turned it into a food v fuel issue which it is not.  Less than 1% of land Worl-wide is used to produce bio fuel.

This just shows how manipulative the media is to get the headline story it wants, whether it's factual or not, but sadly this warped 'news item' is what the public will believe to be true. 

Today I am off to steward the Year of Food and Farming stand at the Hampton Court Flower Show, so let's hope it doesn't rain like yesterday!