VITAL SIGNS: What flies can teach us about repairing the future
Cape Town-based visionary and ‘green business’ serial entrepreneur Jason Drew travels the world creating entities that will sustain natural resources, such as our dwindling fish supplies.His latest venture involves fly farming, turning waste into larvae, and a protein-rich, natural animal feed.He tells Sue Grant-Marshall about a ‘new sustainable revolution’, and how a health scare changed his lifeYou have jetted across the globe in leadership roles in companies such as GE and BUPA. Now you’re an environmentalist who wants to save the world from industries you used to work for. What happened?Great deal, part of that a health problem, but to reduce it to essentials: I came to understand by reading and travelling extensively, that the world is running out of food. Every day, 25,000 people die from starvation, yet as many die of obesity-related conditions. Nearly 1-billion wake up hungry as a result of environmental damage we have caused.Those are shocking figures; why is this happening...
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