Farmageddon

As the global food industry has developed, animals raised for food have disappeared from our fields. We no longer know what is entering the food chain and what we are eating, as demonstrated by the UK horsemeat scandal. Our health is under threat: half of all antibiotics used worldwide (rising to 80 percent in the US) are routinely given to industrially farmed animals, contributing to the emergence of deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Wildlife has suffered: bees are now trucked across the States (and even airfreighted from Australia) to pollinate the fruit trees in the vast orchards of California, where a chemical assault has decimated the wild insect population.