For tens of thousands of years humans hunted and gathered to exist.

Over the last 10,000 years, after the agricultural revolution, farming and herding became the norm.

Over the last 200 years things have drastically changed. Most people no longer produce the food that they eat.

Initially humans ate a little wheat grain, when they found it on the plains, but not often.

Then after the last ice age wheat ( yes, there was global warming!) began to spread and as it became more prolific, so it became a larger part of the human diet.

Grain must be ground and cooked, so the nomadic life was interrupted as temporary camp sites emerged.

Dropped grain grew and became prolific around campsites. 

 This wheat was harvested, and soon wheat was being sewn and a permanent village emerged.

Were we using wheat or was wheat manipulating the human race?

 Wheat has been a staple for about 9,500 years.

But should we be ploughing up huge expanses of the planet and using herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers and depleting the soil to grow this staple?

Should we be processing and stripping and bleaching the hell out of it until it has no nutrient value and then selling it as a cheap foodstuff?

Wholegrains contain valuable nutrients and fibre, is it possible to grow them sustainably and present them to the great majority in a cost effective manner?

What do you think?