The UK Press Association:

Britain has created a “junk food society”, according to David Cameron.

The Tory leader called for an honest debate about the culture of food in this country.

Addressing UK members of the Slow Food movement, Mr Cameron said producing and eating good food was a “social responsibility”…

…He called on consumers to use their collective influence as a force for change.

Buying locally produced food, cooking and preparing proper meals and supporting farmers’ markets are all steps which consumers can take.

Clearly, even a far more “conservative” solution is being planned. For we peasants may shortly have little choice not just to buy local, but will probably have to grow most of our own food . . . seeing as travelling any farther than one can reach comfortably by “personal locomotion” (i.e. walking) will soon be made prohibitively expensive . . .

. . . making life a lot like it was in ye goode olde days:

Travel in the Middle Ages was slow, uncomfortable, and usually dangerous. Today, we can travel around 55 miles in one hour. In the Middle Ages, it would have taken a very fast horse over two days to travel the same distance. A few main roads in Europe had been paved by the Romans, and remained paved with cobblestones during the Middle Ages. However, most roads were made of dirt that turned into a river of mud when it rained. The paved roads were full of pot holes were peasants had “borrowed” a stone from the road to patch up their homes. The potholes and mud restricted travel to walking, horses, and light two-wheeled carts. Most people walked, because horses were very expensive and only the rich could afford them. Any heavy loads were transported on the ocean or by river. Robbers abounded on both sea and land and robbed and killed the unwary. Only very desperate people traveled by night, when the robbers were the most active. Most people didn’t travel at all. Common people sometimes lived their whole lives never traveling more then 10 miles from the place where they were born…

Yet just think about how “environmentally friendly”, “healthy” and “happy” that world was:

A photo believed to be of then pedestrian-friendly Oxford Street’s “Business Woman of The Year”, c. 1250 C.E. (Reuters file photo)