Report back by Rob Squires on the Labour Party Conference fringe event at the Climate Clinic, Sun Sept 21st, 2008.

Two years ago, at the 2006 Climate Clinic I put the question to Alan Simpson MP (Nottingham), “What kind of government intervention can we expect, in order to support local food?” to which he replied that there was nothing in the pipeline what-so-ever. Two years later on, the situation does not seem to have changed significantly, although during this time the issues of the meet, dairy and fishing industries, on the environment, global food security, and health, have shot up the political agenda, from obscurity, to a point where their devastating effects are now acknowledged and beginning to be discussed in public.