King Charles’s farm advisor: ‘David Attenborough is wrong about livestock – it’s not the cow but the how’
Organic farming pioneer Patrick Holden — a mentor to the King – says livestock can play a key role in sustainable agriculture. He pinpoints supermarkets’ ‘parasitic’ treatment of farmers as the real problem and says consumers need to transition away from cheap food
Patrick Holden, an advisor to King Charles, is also the chief executive of the UL's Sustainable Food Trust
It is rare to hear farmers bite the hand that feeds them. The ire of protesting farmers in recent weeks has targeted cheap imports, green policies and government regulation they say is destroying their livelihoods.
But Patrick Holden, one of the pioneers of organic farming in Britain and advisor to King Charles, says their anger is misdirected. The true problem is a race to the bottom among supermarket giants that has left small family farmers on their knees.
