#340 - Mark Byford: How the War on Farming Threatens Food and Freedom

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About this guest -

Mark Byford, known as The Bowler Hat Farmer, has spent over 40 years at the coalface of British farming. Over that time, he’s seen the steady dismantling of our food supply chain, the collapse in food quality, and the erosion of public knowledge around what we eat.

While farmers and producers are stretched to their limits and silenced by endless bureaucracy, Mark has made it his mission to speak out. At 57, he's not slowing down, in fact, he's stepping up.

In 2025, Mark launched the Fork The System tour, a grassroots campaign to raise awareness, educate the public, and inspire action before it’s too late. For him, this is about protecting the future, for his children, grandchildren, and generations to come.

“We are standing on the edge. If we don’t act now, the food our children eat will be synthetic, lab grown, or worse, non existent.”

Driven by urgency and a fierce love for the land, Mark is travelling the UK to connect with others who see the bigger picture, and who are ready to stand up and fight back.

About this episode -

In this episode, I sat down with Mark Byford, the Bowler Hat Farmer, to talk about the real state of food, farming, and what we’re up against. Mark’s been in agriculture for decades, and he’s seen it all, from the collapse in food quality to the lies around organics and sustainability.

We talked about the challenges of fatherhood, kids growing up in a digital world, and how our education system crushes critical thinking. Then we dug into the farming crisis, how most farmers are land rich but cash poor, pushed out by policies designed to destroy self-sufficiency.

Mark shared eye-opening insights into chemical use, solar farms eating up land, the truth about bees, and electroculture as a potential game changer. We touched on food politics, the illusion of change, and how the system is designed to keep us disconnected from real nourishment.

But this isn’t just doom and gloom. Mark’s message is about responsibility and empowerment. Buy local, support your farmers, reconnect with the land. If we don’t step up now, the future of food will be lab meat and insect paste. It’s not just about health, it’s about our humanity.

I hope you enjoy this episode.

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Doc Malik

Links -

https://thebowlerhatfarmer.com

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