Britain: "The high price we pay for cheap food"

... our supermarkets managed to destabilize Britain's food infrastructure. The supermarkets have left behind farmers, milk producers and fishermen. They all have knowledge they should be passing down, but there is no new blood wanting to pick up the rake, the fishing net or the gate latch at 4 a.m....

— Arthur Potts Dawson (via CNN and TED) on the British food industry.

According to the article, the average age of a farmer in Britain is 64.