Dr Rodney Ford's Allergies / Food Intolerance eClinic

Imagine!

What it would be like if you lived in a world without gluten?
Wouldn’t that be awesome.
So ... how can we get there?
What are the obstacles? Are they surmountable?
We can give it a go. We can make a plan. We can make it happen.

So many of us have to completely avoid gluten in our food (my estimates are that over a third of the population would feel better on a gluten-free diet.  The remainder would benefit with the reduction of auto-immune disease and neurological harm).

Those of us who are gluten-affected have to ensure that our own environment is gluten-free. You can feel threatened and uncomfortable in the wider glutened world.  However, as more and more people recognize the harmful effects of gluten on their health, we will see the unstoppable growth of gluten-free communities.

The gluten revolution

It is beyond doubt that we are living in a time of gluten  revolution.  On the one hand, gluten is becoming ubiquitous in our food.  The amount of gluten in our bread and wheat-based products has been steadily increasing.  The wheat business is trillion dollar business.  How much more gluten we can be pumped into our diet?

Explosion of gluten-free

On the other hand, there has been an explosion in the gluten-free market over the last decade. Ten years ago it was difficult to find specifically labelled gluten free foods.  Now, there is a rapid proliferation of specialized gluten-free shops, gluten-free aisles in supermarkets, and gluten-free menus in restaurants.  The gluten-free economy is now worth billions of dollars, and increasing exponentially.  How far can this trend go?

These two competing forces can either clash, or work together.

Could there really be such a thing as a gluten-free planet?

The Gluten-Free Planet Project

Community and consumer force is the only way to create a gluten-free planet.  As the "gluten consciousness” of the globe increases, more and more gluten-free foods will be demanded.  To meet that demand, food manufacturers will provide high quality safe foods.  This will pressure the agriculture sector to grow non-gluten grains.

In time, the planet will turn gluten-free.  We can make this happen.