There has been a huge drive from all quarters here in the UK against battery chickens – most of the supermarkets stock a stong variety of free range chickens and are very clear about organic and fully outdoor reared chickens which are send out to peck and scratch for their own food. Our farm shops simply do not stock factory farmed chickens.

Eggs, too, are clearly labelled and we know the distinction between barn raised, free range, outdoor reared and woodland reared. Alas, our present government seem hell bent on destroying the Food Standards Agency and all the hard work they have put into clear labelling.

The last time "this" government were in power (our Conservative Party), they nationalised the homogenisation and pasteurisation of milk, literally killing off all the small producers of sound unpasterised natural milk. That was a dark day. They also brought CJD into the food chain, pushing heavy factory farmers and pushing out the little guy. This time around seems no different. I wonder what will happen to the Food Standards Agency and the wealth of small producers who have proliferated in the last 13 years bringing real, organic and naturally reared food to our table.

You can tell … I am NOT in favour of the Conservatives! To say they are the party for open market and free trade, they close down trade and manipulate the market to the nth degree to the best gain of multi-nationals and huge conglomerates; and ignore the little man – the voter, the upstart business and the small producer. Ironic!

We've got our food chain in a good sense of order here in the UK – I think while this government do everything they can to ruin it (again) we might hold strong this time – rebellion is well within the spirit of the British psyche.

Huge factory farming is threatening from Europe – think, Danish pork. Urgh! Again, ironically, this government are so very against "Europe" yet it will be the trend of huge warehouse meat production from Europe which will flourish in the coming years. "Free markets" are not a good thing this side of the pond, because they are not free – the people in positions of power who are able to grant licenses, legality and so on do like the wheels to be greased with money! The little man, the upstart, the small producer has a hard time in such a climate.

People like Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (and me, in my small way) challenge the market to change – he challenges the supermarkets to stock food which is right; and relentlessly follows it up. I bombarded Sainsbury (my preferred supermarket) to remove aspartame from their soft drinks, and ultimately they did. Okay, they use sugar to sweeten, but if you're going to drink soft drinks you don't want to be consuming poison!

We're getting there … and we have gained a lot in the last 15 years or so. It could all go in a snap if this government mess it up … which they will. At least there is more of a sense of rebellion amongst, well … everyone this time that we might just hold strong. I gather the milk producers are starting to fight back and get some proper money for their produce. Remember, this government the last time brought in the Milk Marque which ruined milk production in this country.

I could go on for a long time about food production in the UK. We are a farming nation, but our government to various degrees seem hell bent on ruining it. Still, we have our local farms … who have their local slaughtermen and their local outlets and even if sometimes it's just a little outside of the rules, well so what? What the taxman doesn't see doesn't hurt him!